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Detailed explanation-1: -The device is called “liquid-solid interface triboelectric nanogenerator". The generated electricity can be stored in batteries for further use, the institute claimed.

Detailed explanation-2: -The device is called ‘Liquid-solid Interface Triboelectric Nanogenerator’ and it uses ‘Triboelectric Effect’ to derive and store the energy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Initially the IIT started functioning from 5, Esplanade East, Calcutta and very soon shifted to Hijli in Sept. 1950. The present name ‘Indian Institute of Technology’ was adopted before the formal inauguration of the Institute on August 18, 1951, by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) was established in 1951 at Kharagpur.

Detailed explanation-5: -In May 1950, the first in the series was established in Kharagpur at the site of the Hijli Detention Camp, where the British had incarcerated political prisoners; the institution was named the “ Indian Institute of Technology” before its formal inauguration on August 18, 1951.