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Welcome to
Darbha's research group
Environmental Nanoscience Laboratory
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"Sustainable environment is essential for sustainable life"
Our laboratory is equipped with start-of-the-art instrumentation that is necessary to conduct experiments relevant to
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Quantitative analysis of metals, metal nanoparticles present in water, wastewater, soils, plants and other environmental sample, with sample processing and digestion units
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Measurement of hydrodynamic diameter of nano-sized particles with their zeta potential and point of zero charge
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Characterization of fluorescence-labelled nanoparticles/nanoplastics, fluorophores, organic pollutants and identifying the humic substances from the aqueous and soil environments.
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Qualitative and quantitative analysis of plastics in environmental samples, surface functionalization of materials, and quantitative analysis of colored materials
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Contact angle analyzer: For interpreting the degree of hydrophilicity of surfaces
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Analysis of pesticides, Polychloro biphenyls, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, etc., sample extraction and concentration units
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Elemental analyzer: CHNS/O analysis - qualitative and quantitative analasis of C,H,N,S,O of environmental samples such as soils
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Development of nanocomposites (based on biochar, hydroxyapatite, charcoal, iron nanoparticles, etc)
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To conduct contaminant transport (column) experiments in soils
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Kits for real-time simultaneous monitoring of field parameters such as pH, T, TDS, Eh including geographical location
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COD digester, fume hood, culture facility for algae
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Shaker incubators for sorption experiments
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UV shaker incubator for weathering of plastics
Other instrumental facilities within ENL
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Other state-of-art instrumentation at IISER-K:
Other major equipment such as TEM, SEM, XRD, fluorescence, BET, AFM, IRMS, GC-MS etc are available as part of central facility within the institute
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