We have developed a cost effective and reliable battery technology for the large scale energy storage. It is an innovation in Zinc Bromide batteries. Typically the ZnBr2 batteries are of flow type; and regarded as one of the cheapest and long lasting batteries. But the flow batteries need frequent maintenance, cause noise and have lesser …
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The Challenge / Concern: Zinc Oxide (ZnO) is promising semiconductor material. Nanoscaled ZnO with varying but specific morphology was needed to be synthesized. Brief (and non-confidential) Solution A relatively low temperature controllable chemical bath deposition protocol was developed by the speculated growth mechanism of metal oxides. Synthesis of one dimensional ZnO nanorods and two dimensional …
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The Challenge / Concern: Energy storage is a great contemporary market, Lithium-ion batteries being the pioneer. Demand of upcoming decade is to produce the batteries with higher energy densities and of high safety. Thus the battery manufacturers are searching for next generation separators having advantages like higher mechanical strength, higher thermal stability, higher porosity, ease …
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The Challenge / Concern: Fly ash is the material of global concern produced at the numerous coal fired plants. Value added product with engineering rigor was desired that would consume significant quantities of fly ashes of varying composition. A technology was requested with such anticipation. Brief (and non-confidential) Solution Aerators are the porous and sturdy …
The Challenge / Concern: Glycerine is byproduct of transesterification while producing methyl esters. Crude glycerine production has a surge in last decade due to boom is biodiesel plants. Due to insufficient purity, crude glycerine finds no significant application. Hence effective methods for refining of glycerine are desired. Brief (and non-confidential) Solution Typical approaches for refining …
The Challenge / Concern: Polypropylene (PP) is used for packaging of several items. One of the clients was seeking improvement in its barrier properties by virtue of packaging. If the material has lower transfer rates for moisture and gases such as oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, this material can be effectively used for food packaging …
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The Challenge / Concern: Quercetin is a phytochemical of greatest therapeutics potential. It occurs as very small fraction of some vegetables and plant parts. Due to the marginal presence, extraction technology of highest yield is desired. Typical extraction routes doesn’t make quercetin recovery feasible. Brief (and non-confidential) Solution Subcritical solvent offers precise extraction of the …
Sub-critical extraction of Quercetin from varied feedstock Read More »
The Challenge/Concern: A technique was desired for deposition of semiconductor quantum dots on metal oxide substrate. Brief (and non-confidential) Solution Techniques of self-assembled monolayer and chemical bath deposition were concerned and optimized for the materials of interest. Control on size of the dots, the coverage ratio and aspect ratio was optimized. A hybrid of both …
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The Challenge / Concern: Pencil manufacturing relies on huge consumption of high quality wooden blocks. For sake of environmental welfare and reduction in costs, substitutes to wood in the pencil design were required. Brief (and non-confidential) Solution: A method for recovery of cellulose fibrils from spent or abandoned materials was previously developed. We proceed to …
The Challenge/Concern Typical polymerization (especially free radical) reaction rarely achieve the completion, leading to the presence of unreacted residual monomer in the polymer. Besides affecting polymer properties, residual monomers are also often toxic and affect compatibility. A process for production of four different polymers having very low levels of residual monomers was desired. Brief (and …
