{"id":77498,"date":"2019-07-07T17:33:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=77498"},"modified":"2019-07-07T17:33:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:33:44","slug":"self-cleaning-glass-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/self-cleaning-glass-developed\/","title":{"rendered":"Self cleaning glass developed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which Indian institute recently developed a self-cleaning glass which can remove microbes and pollutants?<br> (a) IIT Kanpur<br> (b) IIT Bombay<br> (c) IISc Bengaluru<br> (d) IIT Mandi<br> Answer: (d)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Scientists at IIT Mandi have developed a self-cleaning glass that can remove microbes and organic pollutants &#8212; like dyes, detergent and drugs &#8212; from waste water, using only sunlight.<\/li><li>Waste water from pharmaceutical and textile industries are a major source of river pollution in India and abroad.<\/li><li>While existing purification techniques can remove solid pollutants as well as dissolved inorganic compounds, removing dissolved organic compounds remain a challenge.<\/li><li>Industries do not clean their waste water but simply dump it in the river.<\/li><li>It is only after the river is contaminated completely that we think about taking action to clean the river.<\/li><li>The team have developed a transparent calcium borate glasses and TiO2 crystallised glass nanocomposites which can kill microbes and break down organic chemicals in the presence of solar light<\/li><li>There is no extra cost or machinery involves. If the water is kept in this glass container it will treat the organic compounds in a few hours only needing sunlight.<\/li><li>Removal of such toxic chemicals from water is successfully demonstrated by many researchers at a laboratory scale. However, cost and efficiency associated with existing technologies are major hurdles in their commercial usage.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/sci-tech\/iit-mandis-self-cleaning-glass-can-purify-water-using-sunlight\">http:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/sci-tech\/iit-mandis-self-cleaning-glass-can-purify-water-using-sunlight<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which Indian institute recently developed a self-cleaning glass which can remove microbes and pollutants? (a) IIT Kanpur (b) IIT Bombay (c) IISc Bengaluru (d) IIT Mandi Answer: (d) Related facts: Scientists at IIT Mandi have developed a self-cleaning glass that can remove microbes and organic pollutants &#8212; like dyes, detergent and drugs &#8212; from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":77499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-77498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}