General
- Product design goes hi-tech
BANGALORE: Say goodbye to those staid-looking bottles and packaging of yore. With design and aesthetics maturing and public awareness growing about the way even containers look, today's market has emerged as a virtual designer's world. Sculptures in plastic, call them that......
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Technical Education
Innovation & IPR
Nanotechnology
- Transparent Transistors
Researchers at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center have used nanotechnology to create transparent transistors and circuits, a step that promises applications from e-paper and flexible color screens for consumer electronics, to "smart cards" and heads-up displays in auto windshields. The transistors are made of single nanowires, or tiny cylindrical structures, that were assembled on glass or thin films of flexible plastic......
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Device could put disease detection in the palm of a hand
Lydia Sohn, associate professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, took her show on the road last week with a demonstration of her handheld nanocytometer at a "science fair" for leaders of Congress and the National Science Foundation. The Coalition for National Science Funding Exhibition.....
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Sankara Nethralaya sets its sights high
CHENNAI: Research using nanotechnology will form part of the activities of National Institute for Research in Visual Sciences (NIRVO), a research arm of premier eye care institution Sankara Nethralaya. In its upcoming seven-storeyed building in the city, a floor will be dedicated to research activities in nanotechnology and it will be designed with technical support from United States scientists......
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Energy & Environment
- Next generation ethanol will come from agri-waste
We are free to grow as much biofuel as we please to fulfil our energy needs, to unburden our economy and to reduce harmful emissions like carbon dioxide. But this miracle fuel needs further technology development to bring down the cost of production, reduce pressure on edible foods and tackle its byproducts for proper viability......
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- India, Japan warn of big climate change challenge
NEW DELHI: Japan and India warned on Monday that the world faces a major challenge in tackling climate change while seeking to keep economies growing........
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- Smokeless biomass stoves launched in rural India
As part of the rural development scheme, the biomass stoves will burn with pellets made from agricultural waste; 15,000 such stoves have been distributed in Virudhnagar......
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- Now, power your house from plastic waste
Electricity from plastic waste. It may sound unrealistic, but it's now being touted as the technology of future for the power-deficit India. Alka Umesh Zadgaonkar, who has got six patents in India for the technology and in the process of filing for international patent, is joining hands with two large corporates to make it a commercial success......
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- India to join ITER project, a global thermonuclear programme
New Delhi: With the aim of securing its future energy needs through nuclear power, India has decided to join the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by the Indian prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, also sanctioned Rs2,500 crore to further the initiative. The foreign exchange component of the project is Rs1,129 crore......
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Electronics & Communication
IT & Software
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