Engineering a new way of charging the batteries, researchers of TIFR, Hyderabad, demonstrated how the lithium ion battery, similar to existing commercial designs, can be directly charged with sunlight, thereby developing a solar battery.
Hyderabad: In a bid to decrease the dependence on fossil fuels to recharge the batteries, Amar Kumar, a graduate at the TN Narayanan’s lab in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad and his colleagues have assembled a compact lithium-ion battery with photosensitive materials that can be directly recharged with solar energy. According to […]
Hyderabad: Researchers from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay have found how cells respond to fluctuating doses of the insulin hormone and its importance beyond the commonly associated role in regulating blood sugar or glucose. Researchers from Ullas Kolthur’s group at TIFR, Hyderabad and Ranjith […]