Choosing wall materials for cooler homes using computational methods
Eco-efficient wall materials, such as aerated autoclaved concrete blocks, enhance indoor comfort by significantly reducing temperatures in naturally ventilated houses.
Green roofs can effectively reduce floods in dense urban areas, finds study
Planting small trees on roofs of buildings in dense urban areas can reduce flood volume and runoff
Microfluidics Device to Measure Stiffness of Blood Cells
IIT Bombay’s microfluidic device that rapidly measures stiffness of human cells can help investigate relation between stiffness and disease condition
Accurate estimation of manufacturing variations can improve circuit performance
New experimentally validated model accounts for manufacturing process variations while designing ultra-dense electronic circuits.
Towards safer roads
Researchers recognise risky driving situations by identifying important factors leading to road crashes.
IIT Bombay researchers propose a novel piezoelectric material
Researchers probe properties of the new material, say better for micro- and nanodevices.
Improved Model for High-sensitivity Gallium Nitride Biosensors
Researchers propose a biosensor model that captures the effect of the fluid-sensor interface charge.
How fast you cool molten iron determines its properties
A new cooling model gave better predictions of the strength and ductility of cast iron
Producing low-cost hydrogen fuel with the help of magnets
Researchers have demonstrated how a magnetised catalyst can speed up hydrogen production while bringing down the energy cost.
Hybrid Treatment Systems— A solution to India’s dying waters
Study proposes a systematic change to India’s wastewater treatment infrastructure to improve the quality of water and minimise environmental impact.
New fortified foods to combat malnutrition in India
Palatable supplementary foods designed with variety in mind could be the cure for urban malnutrition
Cancer Invasion: Mixed Cells Make More Headway
Research finds that cancer cells of different sizes and stiffness are more invasive than a group of uniform cells
Monitoring Antibiotics in Dairy and Meat Made Easy
Researchers from IIT Bombay have developed a simple and novel sensor to find out the level of antibiotics present in food and water
Ramping up the energy efficiency of a wirelessly powered communication network
Researchers develop a new AI-powered algorithm that significantly improves the energy efficiency of a wirelessly powered communication network.
Solar microgrids are sustainable, clean energy sources in remote regions
Researchers from IIT Bombay install a solar microgrid with a hybrid storage system in a high altitude site in Sikkim.
Computational techniques to measure small amounts of soot
A novel data processing technique to measure low amounts of soot more accurately
How severe is one’s Covid-19 infection?
Researchers use mass spectrometry to determine the intensity of Covid-19 infection
A ‘spongy’ liquid to clean up industrial carbon dioxide
Globally, carbon dioxide emissions from human and industrial activities are rising alarmingly, and the gas is escaping into the atmosphere. Industries use physical and chemical absorption methods to capture carbon dioxide from industrial emissions.
Opportunity for sugar mills to increase profitability
Indians were among the first people on Earth, along with the indigenous people of New Guinea, to cultivate sugarcane and develop techniques to produce sugar from it. Over the years, newer processes have been developed to extract maximum juice from the cane and make sugar production profitable for the farmers and the sugar mills.
IIT Bombay team wins X-prize Student Competition
A proposed method to capture carbon dioxide and convert it to industrially useful chemicals gets IIT Bombay entry to the X-prize carbon removal grand prize competition.