IIT Jodhpur fabricates a highly sensitive hydrogen sensor
A research team from IIT Jodhpur and IIT Hyderabad have together fabricated a sensor that can detect hydrogen gas even when present at extremely low concentration of 1 ppm. The…
Category: Nanotechnology
IIT Hyderabad: A step closer to oral administration of Kala-azar drug
Using a novel drug-delivery approach, IIT Hyderabad researchers have made oral administration of the drug Amphotericin B for treating Kala-azar and fungal infection possible. The drug encapsulated in polymer nanofibres…
TIFR desalinates seawater without using electricity
TIFR researchers have produced gold nanoparticles that can absorb sunlight over the entire visible region and even the near infrared light. They used such gold nanoparticles to absorb energy from…
IISc team submits more evidence of superconductivity
In a new preprint posted in arXiv on June 5, the IISc team has provided evidence of signatures of critical current — the current at which the superconductor is no…
Amity University achieves faster healing of diabetic wound
Hydrogel nanotubes containing ice in a helical structure developed by Amity University researchers has been found to quicken diabetic wound healing. Complete healing of wounds in Wistar rats was seen…
Silver atoms of nanoparticles are mobile, IIT Madras team finds
IIT Madras researchers have discovered that atoms of nanoparticles made of two silver isotopes having just 25 atoms each rapidly exchanged their positions when the isotopes are mixed in solution.…
JNCASR team fully restores long-term memory in mice with Alzheimer’s
JNCASR researchers along with French counterparts have been able to fully restore neuron to neuron connections and long-term memory in mice with Alzheimer’s disease using a small molecule that activates…
Podcast – Sniffing out lung cancer
IIT Bombay researchers explain how the platform that they developed will help sniff out volatile organic compounds in a gas phase at single molecular levels. Since certain organic compounds in exhaled…
