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Himadri Speciality Chemicals plans Rs 1,613-cr capacity expansion across key businessesHimadri Speciality Chemicals Ltd is implementing a growth strategy focused on capacity expansion and investment. The company plans to inves...
In 2020, researchers tested a self-moistening hydrogel mat under solar panels; it cooled them by at least 10°C and boosted output by up to 19%New research introduces a cooling gel for solar panels. This gel absorbs moisture at night and releases it as vapor during the day. The coo...
This child prodigy developed technology to detect lead in drinking water. Years later, she made her way to MIT. At 19, made history by winning the Stephen Hawking honourGitanjali Rao's journey as a young innovator began at the age of ten when she created Tethys, a device to detect lead in drinking water. Th...
In 2004, Japanese engineers proposed a mile-high pyramid over Tokyo Bay, 14 times taller than the Great Pyramid, meant to house a million people, a mega-city we still cannot buildShimizu Corporation designed a massive pyramid city for Tokyo Bay. This ambitious project aimed to house one million people in a towering s...
Bengaluru startup that makes silicon replacement for chips to scale productionSingle-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), which Bengaluru-based NoPo makes, have applications of a wide range, from EV battery manufacturing...
Birla Carbon buys Belgium's NanocylAlong with the Conductex family of conductive carbon black additives and active anode materials, the inclusion of Nanocyl's advanced MWCNTs...
'Blackest black' material to date developed: MITThe material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, or CNTs -- microscopic filaments of carbon that the team grew on the surface...
- E-textiles to control home appliances
Bengaluru, June 18 (IANS) Too lazy to get up from the bed to switch off your TV or the oven in the kitchen?
New material may help create hypersonic aircraftAs more studies indicated the usefulness of carbon nanotubes, the production rates increased and prices went down to the current rate, betw...
- New process to help desalinate water faster, cheaper
New York, Aug 30 (IANS) In a finding that could make the process of removing salt from seawater easier, faster and cheaper than ever before...
Printed sensors can warn when to change car tyresThe group also wants to explore other automotive applications for the printed sensors, such as keeping tabs on the thickness of brake pads ...
- Printed sensors may warn when to change your car tyres
New York, June 15 (IANS) Engineers in the US have invented an inexpensive printed sensor that can monitor the tread of car tyres in real ti...
- Material tougher, more conductive than copper developed
New York, April 23 (IANS) Researchers have developed thin carbon nanotube (CNT) textiles that exhibit high electrical conductivity and a le...
Fuel-efficient fighter planes, space shuttles a step closerThe study is the first to determine the interface strength between boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) and epoxy and other polymers.
The CO2 in our atmosphere can now be transformed into a building materialThey even note that they tried out the "one pot" approach using power harvested from photovoltaics to heat the molten lithium carbonate.
Stronger, tougher paper may lead to flexible electronicsThe researchers explored the mechanical properties of cellulose, the most abundant renewable bio-resource on Earth.
3-D printer creates objects using wood celluloseThe researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden also added carbon nanotubes to create electrically conductive material.
Used-cigarette butts set to become the next generation energy storage deviceIt is estimated that as many as 5.6 trillion used-cigarettes or 766,571 metric tons are deposited into the environment worldwide every year.
Carbon nanotubes seems to be best bet as IBM proposing first carbon computer by 2020By then silicon chips will reach a feature size of four nanometers and industry will want a replacement technology.
New devices could enable faster gen-next computersScientists have developed novel devices that could usher in a new wave of highly efficient electronics, including computers.