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Awards and Prizes Won:
   
Research group of Prof. Thomas has bagged 22 National awards for excellent work in Polymer Science/Engineering
 
   
Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK
 
   
Member of the New York Academy of Science, USA
 
   
Prof. Sukumar Maithy National Award for Best Polymer Researcher, 2007
 
   
Listed in the Panel of most Productive Researchers in India (5th Position), 2008 by National Institute of Sceince, Technology and Development, New Delhi.
 
 
Awards and Prizes Received by the Group
 
 
Sl.No
Award
Authors
Paper
1.
Young Scientist Award in Kerala Science Congress, 1993 for the best paper in Engg Sciences. (Award received by Dr.S.Varghese
S. Varghese, B. Kuriakose, S. Thomas
Effect of acetylation of sisal fibre bonding agent on mechanical properties of natural rubber/short fibre composites.
2.
Young Scientist Award in Kerala Science Congress, 1993 for the best paper in natural resources utilisation.
K. Joseph,C. Pavithran, S. Thomas (Award received by K. Joseph)
Sisal/PE composites: Effect of fibre length orientation
3.
Shankar Lal Memorial Lecturer Award, 1993 IIT, Kharagpur
G. Unnikrishnan,S. Varghese, S. Thomas (Award received by G. Unnikrishnan).
Diffusion transport of aromatic hydro-carbon through natural rubber
4.
Best poster presentation award in Polymer'94 Vadodara, 1994.
G. Unnikrishnan, S. Thomas (Award received by G. Unnikrishnan)
Diffusion transport of aromatic hydrocarbon through natural rubber.
5.
Shankar Lal Memorial Lecturer Award, 1994 IIT, Kharagpur
Z. Oommen, S. Thomas, M.R.G Nair (Award received by Z. Oommen)
Compatibilizing effect of natural rubber-g-poly(methyl methacrylate natural rubber/poly (methyl methacrylate) blends
6.
Shankar Lal Memorial Lecturer Award, 1994 IIT, Kharagpur
J. George, S. Thomas, K.T. Varughese (Award received by J. George)
Morphological properties of high density polyethylene nitrile rubber blends
7.
Young Scientist Award in Kerala Science Congress, 1994 for the best paper in Natural Resources Utilisation
V. G. Geethamma, S. Thomas (Award received by V. G. Geethamma)
Short coir fibre reinforced natural rubber composites.
8.
Shankar Lal Memorial Lecturer Award, 1995 IIT, Kharagpur
Aji P. Mathew, S. Thomas (Award received by Aji. P. Mathew)
Transport of styrene through crosslinked natural rubber
9.
Young Scientist Award in Indian Science Congress, 1995,Calcutta for the best paper presentation in Material Science.
V. G. Geethamma, S. Thomas (Award received by V. G. Geethamma)
Effect of Surface treatment on the properties of NR-coir composites
10.
Young Scientist Award in Indian Science Congress, 1995,Calcutta for the best paper presentation in Engineering Science
Josphine George, K.T. Varughese, S. Thomas (Award received by J. George)
Impact properties of compatibilized blends of polyethylene/nitrile rubber
11.
Young Scientist Award in Indian Science Congress, 1996, Patiala, Punjab, for the best paper presentation in Material Science.
R. Asaletha M. G. Kumaran, S. Thomas (Award received by R. Asaletha)
Natural rubber/polystyrene blend Interfacial activity of NR-graft-PS
12.
Young Scientist Award in Indian Science Congress, 1996, Patiala Punjab, for the best paper presentation in Material Science.
Siby Varghese, Baby Kuriakose, Sabu Thomas (Award received by Siby Varghese
Design & Development of electronic timer belt from NR-sisal fibre composites
13.
Young Scientist Award in Indian Science Congress, 1996, Patiala Punjab, for the best paper presentation in Chemistry.
G. Unnikrishnan & S. Thomas (Award received by G. Unnikrishnan)
Pervaporation of organic solvents through crosslinked natural rubber membranes.
14.
Young Scientist Award in Kerala Science Congress, 1996 Cochin for the best paper presentation in Engineering Science.
Monsy Mathew, K.N. Ninan, S. Thomas (Award received by Monsy Mathew)
Development of Nitrile rubber/styrene plastics based thermoplastic elastomers
15.
Charles Goodyear Memorial Quiz Competition held at IIT, 1996, Kharagpur
R. Prasanthakumar, Josephine George
Polymer Science & Technology
16.
Best Paper Award for the Annual Conventional of Chemists, Tamilnadu
R. Prasanthakumar, S. Thomas
Sisal fibre reinforced rubber composites
17.
Young Scientist Award in Indian Science Congress, 2000, Pune for the best paper presentation in Engineering Science
Abi Santhosh Aprem, S. Thomas (Award received by Mr. Abi Santhosh Aprem)
Accelerated sulphur vulcanisation of natural rubber using DTB/TBBS as a novel binary system
18.
Best paper award in a National Level Technical Symposium ELASTOFEST `99`, held at Chennai
M. S. Sreekala, S. Thomas (Award received by M. S. Sreekala)
Oil Palm fibre reinforced Phenol Formaldehyde composites for high impact applications: Influence of fibre surface modifications on the mechanical performance
19.
Vasudeva Award
Z. Oommen, S. Thomas
Best Project on natural resources (Investigators: Z. Oommen, S. Thomas)
20.
Second Prize in the Technical seminar CRESMER 2000 held at Chennai
Bejoy Francis, S. Thomas (Award received by Mr. Bejoy Francis)
Epoxy resin/engineering thermoplastic blends
21.
Young Scientist Award in Indian Science Congress, 2001, Delhi for the best paper presentation in Engineering Science
Soney C. George, S. Thomas (Award received by Dr. Soney C. George)
Molecular transport of aromatic hydrocarbons through nylon-6/ ethylene propylene rubber blends: Relationship between phase morphology and transport characteristics
22.
Young Scientist Award in Indian Science Congress, 2003, Bangalore for the best paper presentation in Materials Science
Sobha V. Nair, S. Thomas (Award received by Mrs. Sobha V. Nair)
Influence of processing parameters in the phase morphology development of Nylon-6/PS blends
23.
Young Scientist Award in Indian Science Congress, 2008, Calicut for the best paper presentation in epoxy rubber blends
Jesmy Jose, S. Thomas (Award received by Jesmy Jose)
Epoxy/ rubber blends
 
 
     
 
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Member of American Chemical Society (Rubber Division)
Member of Indian Membrane Society
Member of Polymer Society of India
Member of Society of Disordered Materials
Member of Society of Polymer Technologists, University of Cochin
Member of Mahatma Gandhi University Chemical Society
Fellow of New York Academy of Sciences, USA.
Actively engaged in the Peoples Science Movement for the opularization of science to villages and rural areas