IIT Guwahati Develops ‘Time Bomb’ Liquid Marbles with Nanoclay; Check Details Here

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IIT Guwahati Develops ‘Time Bomb’ Liquid Marbles with Nanoclay

New Delhi: The Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) has created liquid marbles by utilizing nano clay that can be pre-programmed for precise drug administration. Uttam Manna, an associate professor in the chemistry department at IITG, was in charge of the research team for this study.

Advanced Functional Materials is a journal where the research study was published. Nishanta Barman, Arpita Shome,Priyam Mondal, Karan Jain, Mizuki Tenjimbayashi, Saurav Kumar, and Uttam Manna all contributed to the paper's creation. The Department of Biotechnology and the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) provided the funding for this project.

For the regulated release of medications and pre-programmed chemical reactions, IIT Guwahati employed the liquid marbles method. The researchers created liquid marbles that would spontaneously undergo a chemical reaction and discharge energy like a "time bomb".

The release of drugs from a liquid marble in reaction to a stimulus, like light, temperature, or electricity, has previously been observed, according to Uttam Manna, who described the research challenge. The time-programmed discharge, however, was still ongoing.

A floating liquid marble's lifetime in a pool of water has been chemically altered. Uttam Manna continued by providing further details, "The surface alterations on the nano clay modified the time it took for the liquid marble to crack and release its contents when placed in a pool of water. By altering the characteristics of the surface groups, we were able to regulate the duration of the content's release, which ranged from seconds to hours. LMs are detonating like a time bomb in this manner".

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