Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
Very soon, you will able to charge mobile and laptop on the move, thanks to a handy device being developed as the world’s first integrated solar storage tile. The device christened as Amrita Smartuses a super capacitor aided by nano technology and will hit the market within a year. If …
In the three-day conference organised by the University Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology in Panjab University, various guests and delegates presented their work in the field of nanotechnology. Today researchers are more concerned with developing techniques which are more environment-friendly like the development of green products. Similar is the …
Kerala will have 450 functional e-toilets by the end of this fiscal, becoming the first state in India with Connected Toilet Infrastructure which would be on a par with health and hygiene standards of developed countries. An e-toilet has an automated door opening, power flushing, automatic closet washing and sterilisation …
NANOTECHNOLOGY has revolutionised industry. It is used to improve wide ranging products, from cosmetics, toys and toothpastes to textiles and missiles. Industry thinks the technology holds promise to change every facet of life in some way. Substances at nano scale, or nanoparticles, demonstrate novel physiochemical properties compared to larger particles …
An Indian-origin researcher-led team in Singapore claims to have exploited nanostructure technology to make a highly efficient and yet cheaper silicon solar cell. Navab Singh, who led the team from Nanyang Technological University and A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics hopes that their new product would halve the cost of solar energy. …
Washington: Electricity from the nose? Well, it may appear weird, but engineers claim they are working on a technique which would generate power from human respiration. A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says that it is actually working on a method which would someday power sensors in one’s body …
Manufactured nanomaterials (MNs) are commonly considered to be commercial products possessing at least one dimension in the size range of 10−9 m to 10−7 m. As particles in this size range represent the smaller fraction of colloidal particles characterized by dimensions of 10−9 m to 10−6 m, they differ from …
IT’S been a couple of years since scientists proposed that graphene, the new rockstar of the nano-world, is capable of revolutionising the healthcare sector. The one-atom-thick sheet of carbon can be used as an efficient vehicle to deliver drugs precisely to the target tumour or cancer cells. Its intrinsic optical …
THE recent accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan has left governments across the world worried over the safety of nuclear energy and its waste. As radioactive materials contaminated water, soil and air, technology to clean up the waste came to the forefront. Traditionally, naturally occurring substances such as …
In this paper we describe a strategy for sustained release of nitrogen into the soil. Specifically, ureamodified hydroxyapatite nanoparticles were encapsulated under pressure into cavities of the soft wood of Gliricidia sepium. Nitrogen release of the nanofertilizer composition was studied using soil from three elevations in Sri Lanka (pH 4.2, …
IMAGINE a future when magnetic particles less than 100 nanometers in diameter will target, detect and capture images of cancer cells in your body. A team from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, thinks such a future is possible. Researchers designed nanoparticles that can be used to transport drug …
According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, USA, ‘Homeopathy is a controversial area of alternative medicine involving highly diluted preparations and its con- cepts are not consistent with well-known laws of science.’ http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/10apr2011/977.pdf
A Parliamentary panel review of cement industry has instructed Dept. of Industrial Policy to direct all plants to comply with emission standards and suggested cement manufacturers to comply with corporate responsibility for environment protection. Cement is the most essential raw material in any kind of construction activity. Accordingly, cement industry …
FROM sunscreens, antiseptics to medicines that fight HIV, artificially engineered nanoparticles are vital for numerous consumer and industrial products. Of a nanometre’s size, these particles are of silver, gold, titanium dioxide and other elements and compounds. While nanotechnology has become the latest buzzword in science, a group of scientists has …
KOCHI: The Parliamentary Committee on Energy will recommend to the Union government to increase the support for research projects like application of nanotechnology in solar cells, P.C. Chacko, MP, has said. Mr. Chacko was speaking to presspersons along with other members of the committee after visiting the nano solar division …
Praveen Bose / December 17, 2010, 0:20 IST With automotive manufacturers striving to match stricter emission norms set by regulatory authorities, they have begun considering nanotechnology as a necessity. With precise structuring and exceptional physical and mechanical properties, nanomaterial-based products have the potential to redefine energy and materials applications.
Mumbai: Six months after the British Medical Association rubbished homeopathy as witchcraft with no scientific basis, IIT scientists have said the sweet white pills work on the principle of nanotechnology. Homeopathic pills containing naturally occurring metals such as gold, copper and iron retain their potency even when diluted to a …
