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Category: Water pollution

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 19, 2019

IIT Jodhpur fabricates a highly sensitive device for lead detection

Researchers at IIT Jodhpur have fabricated a portable sensor for detecting lead in water. It can detect lead even when present at extremely low concentration of 0.018 ppb, much lower…

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Posted on October 5, 2019

IISER Pune synthesises a photocatalyst to degrade organic pollutants

IISER Pune researchers have converted the highly unstable perovskite into a ultra-stable photocatalyst that can decompose toxic organic pollutants commonly present in water. The photocatalyst was synthesised by encapsulating nanocrystals…

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Posted on September 7, 2019September 7, 2019

CLRI’s biocatalyst cuts effluent discharge during leather processing

A novel biocatalyst developed by researchers at CLRI, Chennai speeds up the leather processing time at the pre-tanning stage, cuts chromium usage, and achieves three-fold reduction in water usage thus…

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Posted on August 7, 2019August 8, 2019

Toxic mercury in fish increases with ocean warming, overfishing

Based on data and modelling, researchers from Harvard University have found that the amount of toxic mercury (methylmercury) in fish higher in the food chain can change due to two…

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Posted on July 27, 2019July 29, 2019

IISER Mohali finds zebrafish use landmarks for navigation

IISER Mohali researchers have found that zebrafish did overcome the challenges posed by reduced visibility in turbid waters after a month of acclimatisation. They show zebrafish use visual cues to…

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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 September 22, 2018September 22, 2018

Podcast: Detecting organophosphoporus pesticides in apples and tomatoes

 Partha Mahata from Jadavpur University explains how the cadmium-based MOF synthesised by his team is capable of detecting organophosphoporus pesticides both in water solution and in apples and tomatoes. The MOF is highly…

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