What does a Defence laboratory have to do with medicine? Plenty, apparently. Soldiers might sustain burns, combat injuries, diabetic and pressure uclers and DRDO has developed a ‘Herbo Healer’, a cream, to treat such wounds. Call it ‘Burnol’ from...
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In an earlier post,we had mentioned ISRO’s technology for making carbon foam, an emerging next generation, sponge-like engineering material with multiple applications. Now, there is information that National Physical Laboratories also has technology for making carbon...
Read moreDefence Metallurgical Research Laboratory has developed Aluminium foams that can be used to build structures meant to absorb blast impact. These materials exhibit superior stiffness-to-weight ratio, vibration damping and resistance to fire, compared with polymer foams. A...
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The trick in solar photo voltaic energy business is to get more and more of sunlight (not heat, by the way) to fall on the solar panels. The more the sunlight, the more the...
Read moreThe challenge in medicine is to get the drugs to where it matters, which is inside the cells. However, the drug molecules have to pass through the cell walls (membrane). Often the pores in the cell...
Read moreELECTROCHEMICAL BATTERIES (Note: This is not yet a technology offered to the industry.) Lithium-ion batteries of various chemistries rule the market today, but since Lithium (and the Cobalt that is also needed) is scarce...
Read moreThis is truly a very interesting, high commercial value technology – female hygiene products that are bio-degradeable, eco-friendly, non-cancer causing. IIT Hyderabad has come up with an invention of biocompabible polymer matrix for female hygiene...
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This is truly fantastic! IIT Bombay scientists have developed a process to produce reduced graphene oxide—a wonder material with vast industrial applications—using bacteria. This bio-method for producing reduced graphene oxide is easy, low...
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SURFACE COATING IIT Bombay has devised a method to coat steel that improves the quality of diamond coat on steel components, thus enhancing adhesion and giving the surface more hardness. In the conventional chemical...
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FERTILIZERS - PHOSPHATIC Bhabha Atomic Research Center has developed a technology for making phosphatic fertilizers from distillery sludge. The process converts post-biomethanation sludge into high efficiency phosphatic fertilizers, which are better than chemically synthesized phosphatic...
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