Yellow-coloured LED bulbs cancurb mosquito menace, claimsresearch by RTMNU students
Staff Reporter :
THE yellow-coloured light emanating
from LED bulb can be effective in controlling the menace of mosquitoes.
Sounds intriguing, but research by
group of students of Rashtrasant
Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
(RTMNU), claims to have found that
yellow-coloured LED bulb has been
able to deter the mosquitoes.
The students of MSc Physics undertook research on Nano Science and
Nano Technology and since mosquito related diseases like chikungunya
and Dengue that had troubled the
citizens was fresh in their mind
and hence they decided to work on
the same. They were guided by Dr
Sanjay Dhoble, Professor, Department
of Physics.
During the research the students
experiments with various colours
bulbs, like red, blue and yellow. And
the exposure to yellow LED bulb
showed that mosquitoes were keeping away from the room when it was
on.
After extensive results the students and their guide detailed it and
submitted same for patent.
The markets has en number of anti
dote to counter the mosquitoes but
most effective proved to be yellow
coloured LED bulb. People spend huge
money on buying protection from
mosquitoes, and some of them are
harmful in long run. But the yellow
coloured LED bulb is most useful and
also less expensive. Rising mosquito
menace is troubling citizens like never before. Spike in cases of chikungunya, especially this year,
has been quite significant.
Those infected are still not
fully recovered from the
effects of chikungunya.
Hence Dr Dhoble said the
usage of yellow coloured LED
bulb is very effective in keeping mosquitoes at bay. Some
of the leading electrical appliances companies have introduced the yellow-coloured
LED bulb, but these days citizens are preferring cool day
light, which emanates
white-coloured, in their
households. Citizens can put
up yellow-coloured bulbs at
verandah, in garden, and at
entry so as to curb mosquito
menace.
The students who formed
the research team included
Mukesh Turkane,
Siddheshwar Nagpure and
Pranali Zade, all students of
Nano Science andTechnology
course, and Dr Abhijit Kadam,
Research student.