Chennai, March 23 -- The Delhi Government have funded a project on a potentially new way to control pollutants in public places. The study is led by IIT Madras Professor Somnath C Roy, who will begin with laboratory testing before moving to field trials in Delhi.

The areas for those trials are yet to be decided, where the tests will be conducted to determine whether "smog-eating photocatalytic coatings on public spaces could reduce pollutants such as Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), both key drivers of urban air pollution.

Professor Somnath C Roy explained how the help of Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) based material will help in tackling the problem of smog.

The professor said that the TiO2 nanomaterial-based pan...