At one of the world’s biggest shows Expo 2020, The De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) will be sharing their research. Dr. Karthikeyan Kandan has been asked to demonstrate his work in sustainable engineering at Expo 2020, the international innovation festival which takes place in Dubai for six months, starting this October.
In his role as Associate Professor at DMU’s School of Engineering and Sustainable Development, Dr. Kandan has led a team that has created a prosthetic limb socket made from recycled plastic water bottles for amputee patients.
He discovered he could grind the plastic bottles down and use the granulated element to spin polyester yarns, which can then be heated up to form a solid yet lightweight material that can be molded into prosthetic limbs.
This method only costs £10 for the prosthetic socket, compared to the current industry average of around £5,000 each. Dr. Kandan and his team had created new brick from domestic plastic waste that had been proved to provide 10 times better insulation than traditional bricks.
Dr Kandan said: I am excited to be going to Expo to showcase accessible recycled material prosthetic socket technologies. “It is a huge opportunity and while there I want to focus on networking to generate wider awareness for the newly developed prosthetic socket technologies.”
These Produce are true means of eco-friendly Products, and acknowledgment from Expo 2020 proves Dr. Kranda and his team’s efforts didn’t go to waste, for our modern world these products are a tremendous revolution.
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