S. Jayapoorani
Sona College of Technology, India
Title: Application of nano plating in drinking water
Biography
Biography: S. Jayapoorani
Abstract
Drinking water plays an important role in the health and hygiene of a human. Every country maintains different standards. From ancient times in India, drinking water is stored in silver vessels because it kills germs and controls the germs multiplication. Silver has the characteristic of being antimicrobial and it is used for plating the vessels. Silver has least toxicity to animal cells. Thus, it makes the water sterile. Pulse plating is used because it produces nanograin when plated. Thus nanoplating using silver metal is done on storage vessels. This technique can ideally be used in hospitals to serve the patients. When the storage medium is made small in size, can ideally be used in homes for improvising the health of the people in whole. There is an increase in adhesion of the plated material on to the substrate, increase in hardness, high smoothness and highly antimicrobial activity is acheived through nanoplating. When any material is coated with nanograin, obviously it has the property of using very low raw material absorption rather than the conventional DC plating with higher order grain size.