Ateneo Chemistry student wins third in BPI-DOST awards

Published February 17, 2013 10:02am

Chemistry student Napoleon Salvador Antonio (BS Ch MSE ) won third place in the BPI-DOST Best Project of the Year with his study titled "Towards affordable solar cells: Fabrication of photovoltaic devices incorporating doped graphene from graphite and doped Carbon from pyrolyzed glycerol." His mentor is Dr. Erwin Enriquez.

Napoleon Salvador Antonio (2nd from left), poses with the other winners and the BPI Foundation, Inc. President Aurelio Montinola, III (left) and Senior Vice President Randy Maranan. Photo from DOST SEI website

The BPI-DOST Best Project of the Year is an annual research competition that recognizes students who excel in specialized fields of science such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science, biology and environmental science.

Jann Adriel Sy of the University of the Philippines- Diliman won first place for his study “Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the 3 'untranslated region of the pregnane X receptor gene and inter-individual variability in drug responses” while Jose Paolo Aguilar of the University of Santo Tomas won second place for his project titled "Remedation of chromium by immobilized microorganisms with zero-valent iron nanoparticles.” Press release from Ateneo De Manila University

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