This is part of its efforts to popularize science to the general public and students who are pursuing science as their career. TNSF attempt to focus on students on higher science as everyone knows that learning of science at college within the curriculum is not enough to acquire holistic knowledge of science at the appropriate time. Hence, to fill the gap between what students are acquiring through the curriculum and what it is required, TNSF is planning its activities on higher science to students who are pursuing higher education.

About the Lecture
Humanity’s rapid progress in the last 200 years has largely been the result of accelerated scientific and industrial progress, with the advent of the industrial revolution in the late 18th century. Advances in our modes of transport, enhanced food security through both the Haber-Bosch process and the green revolution, and vastly improved medical care have ushered in unprecedented global prosperity. However, this has also resulted in drastic increases in anthropogenic activity, resulting in climate change/global warming and imbalances in access to key resources such as potable water.

Our conversation will revolve around the key role sustainable innovation can play in addressing these challenges. Demystifying carbon capture, storage and utilisation (CCUS) for the larger public will be a central goal. How can a multi-pronged approach from the obvious (large-scale afforestation) to the not-so-obvious (biowaste-to-energy via chemical transformations) assist in achieving a net-zero carbon future and address global warming efficiently? An additional conversation we will have will centre around the availability of water and what the existing approaches are to secure potable water for the general populace. We will then move on to demystifying modern materials for water capture from the atmosphere in humid areas.