South Korea

Oct

2019

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Taare Zameen Par

PeopleADSIP, Bhutan, Exchange Diaries, France, ICCR, IIT KGP, IIT KGP students, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kharagpur campus, International Relations, international students, Nepal, Nigeria, Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria

Diwali was just round the corner when a galaxy of stars descended on the Structural Reliability and Research Facility (SRRF) Lab last Tuesday evening over mouth-watering snacks and a tête-à-tête with the International Relations Office of IIT Kharagpur. These students, enrolled for various postgraduate courses and programs at IIT Kharagpur, and hailing from Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Nigeria, Russia, Syria and France, participated in an engaging session that continued for over a couple of hours. “What is this Illu thing we are hearing in our halls? Is it something big here?” asked one student. He was visiting the…

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…