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Posted on October 28, 2017October 28, 2017

IIT Madras develops extremely water-repellent coating

The superhydrophobic coating exhibits a water contact angle of more than 160 degrees. It has high mechanical durability and chemical stability, and can be coated or spray painted on any surface including…

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Posted on August 6, 2017August 7, 2017

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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Posted on December 18, 2016March 21, 2017

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…

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Posted on November 10, 2016November 11, 2016

IIT Madras researchers with a Midas touch, on a nanoscale

In a breakthrough, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has successfully transformed nanoscale pieces of silver to gold and gold to silver by replacing…

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Posted on September 21, 2016May 22, 2017

IIT Madras scientists’ cheaper solution to make brackish water potable

It may soon become possible to convert brackish water into drinking water at about 12 paisa per litre right on the kitchen table by using a potential difference of just…

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Posted on July 16, 2016June 27, 2017

With $18 million venture funding, IIT Madras Prof breaks the glass ceiling

“I am glad that technologies from academic labs are getting venture funding in units of millions of dollars,” says Prof. T. Pradeep from the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of…

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Posted on June 4, 2016July 25, 2016

IIT Madras researchers dissolve silver using glucose water

In a finding that may have many implications, IIT Madras researchers have found that silver can slowly dissolve in water if heated to about 70 degree C in the presence…

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Posted on January 19, 2016July 25, 2016

IIT Madras: designer alloys by chemical reactions

Nothing whatsoever will happen if large chunks of silver and gold kept in proximity even for infinite period. But the same cannot be said when the two metals are at…

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