#MEET Nanotechnology Application in Water Purification

#MEET Nanotechnology Application in Water Purification

This is a short interview we conducted with Kariim Ishaq, the founder of “Nanotechnology Application in Water Purification”. If you like the concept of this idea and would like to vote for it, click HERE.

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• What is your background?

Name: Kariim Ishaq. Nationality: Nigerian Age: 29 years old. Education: B.Eng (Chemical Engineering). Field of Work: Researcher in the Field of Nanotechnology. Name of Project: Nanotechnology Application in Water Purification

• Describe your idea or project in two sentences.

My idea entails the development and fabrication of nanobased water purification system using functionalized Carbon Nanotubes. The nano material will possess a characteristics properties for the removal of heavy metals and microorganisms from water bodies.

• What are the benefits you take from the Entrepreneurship Campus?

The major benefit which I take from the Entrepreneurship Campus is the ability to make ones idea known to the universe via the use of social media and other available means. From this program, I learn the skills necessary for the source of financial and other means of kick starting an enterprise.

• What motivates you to be an entrepreneur?

The main motivative factor is the ability to identify a particular need from the environment and to create a solution(s) which results to income generation.

• Imagine you have ‚supreme power’ to create and innovate: how would your world look like? What changes would you like to make in your community and/or in the world? Share your thoughts from a ‚supreme power’ and entrepreneur standpoint.

My World will be extraordinary creative seeking continuously, the Entrepreneurship idea from the teaming populace in solving community based problem relating to drinking water via a novel and innovative techniques.

• What would you say to potential voters who may be reading your interview?

My idea seeks to address the problem associated to water and to render water more suitable for drinking through the adsorption/removal of heavy metals and microns via an embedded functionalized nano material from agricultural waste.

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