Researchers at IIT Delhi have developed a technology for industrial scale production of Nanofibres which is superior to existing commercial technologies in other countries.
Nanofibres, which are 1/1000 th in diameter in comparison to a cotton fibre, is one such material that has found applications in making high efficiency industrial filters, automobile oil and fuel filters, scaffolds for tissue engineering, highly responsive electronic sensors, protective devices and many more. The IIT Delhi researchers, led by Prof. Ashwini Agrawal and Prof. Manjeet Jassal from the Textile and Fibre Engineering Department, were able to solve all the challenges and develop a scalable prototype. The pilot machine developed at IIT Delhi has been validated in an industrial set-up for producing nanofibres at commercial scale. The technology has been granted patents in India, the UK and the USA.
