Posted on Monday, June 18, 2018
With air pollution increasing at an alarming rate, people across the world are making concisions efforts to control it.
The nanoparticle can selectively convert poisonous Carbon Monoxide gas into Carbon Dioxide. It is in the powder form and can be further used by various industries in different forms to clean the air.
Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, a member of the research team at IIT Gandhinagar, says, “Since discovery of atomically thin graphite (graphene), several applications are explored recently, starting from electronics devices, sensors, biomedical and many more.”
Tiwary adds, “The current work is an initial scientific research and in future, it can be scaled up for regular air purification. We are trying to build 3D porous architecture using such hybrid for practical applications.”
Sudhanshu Sharma of IIT Gandhinagar says, “While Platinum and Palladium alone are active catalysts, alloying them with graphene does wonder. The hybrid shows high adsorption and reaction due to the synergism among the three.”
Krishanu Biswas from IIT Kanpur adds, “Our effort is initial step in cleaning air in cities. The new material could potentially find use in chemical industries as well as environmental cleaning.”
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