nanogenerator

Aug

2020

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GYTI Award for IIT Kharagpur’s Clean Energy Research

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Graphics: Suman Sutradhar Hindustan Times Financial Express Economic Times (Energy) Moneycontrol Indian Express Dainik Jagran News18 Hindi India Today The Week NDTV The Tribune RepublicWorld Outlook Researchers from IIT Kharagpur have been conferred the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards 2020 have been awarded for their work in the area of energy efficiency. Prof. Suman Chakraborty, Prof. Partha Saha and Dr. Aditya Bandopadhyay, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have been awarded for their work "Electrical Power Generation from Wet Textile". While Prof. Sunando Dasgupta and his team from the Department of Chemical Engineering, have been awarded for their work…

Sep

2018

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By Chirosree Basu

The magic of spun silk

In-Depthbiomechanical, fibre, IIT Kharagpur, nanogenerator, pacemaker, silk, South Korea, spider silk, unique properties

Nature Asia Indian Express Outlook India Today IIT Kharagpur researchers use spider silk fibre to device self-powered bio-nanogenerator You can dismiss Spiderman as a figment of the imagination, but in real life, the web he spins is as powerful as its reel-life version. Spider silk fibres, which have a remarkable protein sequence structure, contain nature’s most outstanding mechanical properties. They have unrivalled elasticity along with biocompatibility and biodegradability. Using these unique properties of spider silk, scientists at IIT Kharagpur, along with a team of researchers from South Korea, have devised a piezoelectric nanogenerator that is self-powered and can harvest…