BENGALURU: Women scientists could well help mitigate the crippling effect of arsenic and fluoride among millions of Indians, owing to contamination of drinking water, with novel methods of detection and removal of these toxic chemicals.
While two women scientists of Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, Bhopal, shared details of a cost effective sensor — developed from waste material — to trace these toxic contaminants, another from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), explained about an eco-friendly technique, using some species of plants for removal of such toxic substances from water, at the Indian Science Congress underway in Bengaluru.
Shivani Pandey and Satanand Mishra of Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, Bhopal, explained about an advanced material developed to design the sensor in an effort to reduce the response time, size and cost of the sensor.
“Advanced sensor is designed to present a simple face to host structure via a digital interface. In this study, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques could be applied for analysis of water quality data,” they added.
