Panaji: Two researchers at the Goa University Chemistry School have found a method for making nano materials, which are ten more cheaper than the commercial process currently being used to design nanorods.
Tungsten trioxide nanorods produced through their methods can now be explored for many applications, including storage of clean energy, cancer diagnostics, among others.
After a strict process, Pranay Morajkar researchers and Akshay Salkar have received Indian patents for their methods to synthesize Nanorods Tungsten trioxide ‘.
While Tungsten Trioxide Nanorods has been explored for its great application throughout the world, the process of producing it remains expensive, requiring developing countries such as India to import 5G around RS 5,000, the researchers said.
This method uses cheap urea in the process and helps produce 5G nanorods at a price of less than Rs 500.
“For developing countries such as India, the active nano material produced at a low cost will enable us to explore industrial scalability and economically the way to various applications on The energy sector is clean and the environment, instead of importing it, “Morajkar said.
He currently serves as an assistant professor in the school of chemistry, and his research focuses on designing nano structural materials for energy and environmental applications.
“High pressure autoclave synthesis and expensive template synthesis are used commercially, which makes the process expensive.
Our method, instead, using internal fuel in the process.
We have used cheap protonat Urea innovatively to provide internal energy and nano-structural negariets for Material during the phase of the growth process of the synthesis process, “Morajkar said.
Morajkar and Salkar have worked on the application of nanorods in preparing a continuous or alternative clean energy storage system such as supercapacitor.
This can help minimize or eliminate the use of fossil fuels in the future.
The researchers say that the application of nanorods tungsten trioxide in diagnostics and cancer treatments also needs to be explored.
“To detect cancer, you use imaging technology, where tungsten high x-ray absorption coefficients can strengthen the visibility of the network structure.
His photocatology properties are being explored for use in photodynamic therapy by researchers worldwide.
Therefore, the potential is photocative and Sensing of this nanorod and the composite needs to be explored further to use in the biomedical domain, “said Morajkar.
His colleague, Salang, was a young researcher with a physical chemical master’s degree from Gu (pursued through St Xavier’s College, Mapapaa) and is currently pursuing a PhD with Morajkar at the school of chemistry.
“Different particles are available in the commercial market, but few are available in the form of stems, and even there, expensive.
Now, we try to improve the process.
We need to find buyers for large-scale production and the process of finding buyers will soon start through Cave Intellectual Property Cells In 2014, to serve its homeland.