MATERIAL IIT-KANPUR High speed trains need different kinds of tracks. The Ministry of Steel has mandated IIT Kanpur to develop steels for tracks, wheels, axles, elastic clips etc. The need of the hour...
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SEMICONDUCTORS Researchers in IIT Bombay have achieved a breakthrough in making glass substrates that has significant advantages over the conventional silicon substrates in applications such as 5G devices. Glass substrates (technically, fused silica, which...
Read moreThermoelectric materials, used in thermoelectric generators, can can harvest energy from waste heat even at low temperatures where majority of energy conversion technologies are not usable. Today’s technologies mostly use inorganic thermoelectric materials, which are usually rigid, toxic...
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Here is a technology of high practical use from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. The technology is for producing wound dressings that release Nitric oxide, which helps in faster healing. Nitric oxide plays an...
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ELECTROCHEMICAL BATTERIES Researchers Dr A S Prakash and Dr K Ramesha at the Central Electro Chemical Research Institute (CECRI) have made considerable progress in their development of a Sodium-ion cell. Starting with 200 mAH capacity (3.6V),...
Read moreDr A Ganesh of IIT-Bombay has synthesized a nanocarbon structures from cashew nut shell by pyrolysis vapours. On heating the cashew nut shells (CNS), an agroindustrial residue, upto about 100oC, the pericardium fluid present in the shells oozes out and is...
Read moreIndian Institute of Chemical Technology has developed technology for effluent treatment plant (ETP) for chemical and pharmaceutical wastewater. This technology is available for license to the industry. IICT has not provided much information about the...
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ADRDE, a DRDO lab that works in the field of Aerial Delivery Systems, has designed and developed the Heavy Drop P-7 Parachute system to airdrop 9.5 Ton (Max all Up mass) class payload using...
Read moreIndian Institute of Chemical Technology has developed what it calls a ‘bioelectrochemical’ method for treating complex wastewaters. It calls this a “novel, multi-electrode, membrane-less, bio-catalyzed fuel cell for bio electricity production from waste water. ...
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GRAPHITE National Physical Laboratories has offered to license its technology for making high density graphite. The technology is an indigenously developed one step, simple and cost-effective process for synthesis of high density isotropic graphite using self-sintering...
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