IIT Madras: Now, silver ‘grows’ in paddy fields
A rice variety originally from West Bengal is able to accumulate high concentration of the metal in its grain. It is a rice variety with a silver touch, literally. Garib-sal…
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IIT Madras develops surgical robots for medical colleges
Dinesh C. Sharma Just like the industrial robots becoming increasingly common on factory floors, surgical robots are making their presence felt in hospitals. However, prohibitive costs and a lack of training…
IIT Madras team produces white light using pomegranate, turmeric extract
Dr. Vikram Singh, former research scholar in the Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras won the BIRAC Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award 2017 for his work on producing white light…
IIT Madras’ baby steps to develop data glove for the speech-disabled
A data glove, which measures the individual joint angles of all the five fingers to understand the activity daily living, developed by Nayan Bhatt, Research Scholar from the Department of…
IIT Madras’ first step to develop cheaper cancer diagnostic alternative
A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has developed a cheaper yet reliable alternative for diagnosing leukaemia and colorectal cancer. Like monoclonal antibodies which are…
IIT Madras researchers study the role of mushroom spores in atmospheric bioaerosols
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have for the first time, over the Indian region, demonstrated the potential role of mushroom spores in atmospheric bioaerosols. While others…
IIT Madras develops a novel electrode material for lithium batteries
A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has been able to enhance the capacity retention of anode material in lithium ion batteries four-fold compared with…
IIT Madras researchers prove the superiority of arsenic water filter which got $18 million funding
An exhaustive research carried out by a team of researchers led by Prof. T. Pradeep from the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, spread over…
