IIT Delhi technology enables reuse of N95 masks
Team Careers360 | July 10, 2020 | 01:46 PM IST | 1 min read
NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi’s startup, Chakr Innovation, has developed a technology to disinfect and enable the reuse of N95 masks.
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Virology has successfully tested the technology.
The device will be launched on July 10, 2020. Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey will be joining as the chief guest along with the IIT Delhi director V Ramgopal Rao.
An online panel discussion in collaboration with IIT Delhi and FICCI will also take place on the topic "Sustainability in the times of Pandemic: Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Masks for a Healthier Planet" said the statement and the panel will be moderated by Ajai Chowdhry, Padma Bhushan Awardee, Founder HCL.
“IIT Delhi has been found to achieve complete virus inactivation against SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens, without affecting the fit and filtration efficiency of the mask (validated by SITRA)” also mentioned in the statement.
Also Read
- IIT Delhi, DTU to audit stability of Delhi’s schools, high-rises
- NIT Trichy BTechs will get direct entry into IIT Delhi PhD programme
Write to us at news@careers360.com
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Featured News
]- NIT Kurukshetra students demand elected council, quick re-exams, counselling for teachers
- IIM Fees vs Placements: Soaring cost, stagnant salaries, students in debt
- Delhi University plans study-abroad programme for UG students, scholarships for some
- Hostel Life: Bad food, dirty toilets, sky-high fees – the truth about higher education’s crumbling backbone
- No UGC framework, no scope of AI-free assignments; teachers rethink class assessment with viva voce
- Assam Women’s University: From handful of students to robots in village schools, AWU is just getting started
- Teacher Training: Deemed university on paper, NITTTRs lose ground as AICTE, MMTTCs muscle in on domain
- CBSE mandatory 3rd language rule leaves Sanskrit as only R3 option at many pvt English-medium schools
- Mofussil to Markets: SNDT Women’s University is taking fashion design boom to the Maharashtra hinterlands
- Promised, but missing: Five years on, National Digital University reduced to a budget item, with no funds