cleaning oil spills

Kana M Suresan and Annamalai Prathap, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala,combined absorption and gelation processes, and tightly bound the oil to a porous matrix.

Did you know waste like human hair, sawdust and bird feathers can clean oil spills from water? Nikhilesh Das came up with this idea when he was just 13. Read more to know how three incidents in his life made him come up with three solutions to eliminate water pollution.