Guwahati: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati researchers have developed a low-cost membrane technology to produce psychoactive drugs and anti-aging compounds from wide range of agricultural resources like camellia sinensis, citrus fruits and peels especially orange peels, berries, ginkgo biloba, parsley, pulses, tea, sea buckthorn and onions.
...IIT Guwahati develops low-cost tech to produce psychoactive drugs & anti-ageing compounds
The low-cost technology is patented and developed by Prof Mihir Kumar Purkait, Head, Centre for Environment and Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering along with MTech student V L Dhadge