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Posted on January 18, 2020February 3, 2020

IIT Bombay team removes heavy metals from water with greater efficiency

IIT Bombay researchers have fabricated a carbon-based nanostructure that is capable of simultaneously adsorbing with very high efficiency four heavy metals — arsenic, chromium, cadmium and mercury — from wastewater.…

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Posted on October 19, 2019October 20, 2019

IIT Bombay’s sensor detects zinc in sweat, soil

IIT Bombay researchers have fabricated a sensor that can detect zinc over a wide concentration range — 0.1-500 ppm. The electrochemical sensor can be used for detecting zinc in the…

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Posted on October 5, 2019

Tenure track system at IITs is a recipe for failure

Flogging a small subset of young faculty to improve research and teaching metrics using the threat of tenure track while leaving the large majority of senior faculty completely unmonitored will…

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Posted on August 10, 2019August 10, 2019

Irrigation, agriculture shift rainfall to northwest India, IIT Bombay finds

IIT Bombay researchers have found the reason why the summer monsoon rainfall has shifted towards northwest India and intensification of extreme rainfall is seen over central India during the month…

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Posted on May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

Science news on The Hindu website has high readership

Between January 2017 and January 2019, the Science section (excluding health, environment and technology) on The Hindu website got on average 5 lakh readers per month. And even on certain…

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Posted on May 18, 2019May 18, 2019

IIT Bombay fabricates wearable supercapacitor

IIT Bombay researchers have fabricated wearable supercapcitor which when stitched on any fabric can deliver power ranging from microwatt to milliwatt. The energy stored in the device can power GPS…

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Posted on April 6, 2019

IIT Bombay’s bacteria preferentially degrade aromatic compounds

IIT Bombay researchers have used a unique strain of bacterium isolated from soil contaminated with petroleum products to selectively remove toxic aromatic pollutants from the environment. The bacteria devour aromatic…

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Posted on April 6, 2019April 7, 2019

IIT Bombay team cultures more skin cells in less time

IIT Bombay team uses indigenously developed hydrogel to multiply skin cells (keratinocytes). In contrast to plastic plates where cells grew to 1 million in 10 days, the hydrogel produced 20…

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