FIG. 1 Diagram of artificial kidney showing the complete implantable apparatus made of nanocarbon and a cellulose acetate membrane developed by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay. It is attached to blood vessels using catheters.
Director and CEO at Ideal Organs and Research Pvt Ltd.
Chattopadhyay also developed a method of placing an artificial kidney apparatus inside the body or in a portable device which would be externally attached to a patient.
The polymer/nanotube membranes provide a solution to the problem of kidney damage, wherein the damaged kidney can be replaced with the artificial kidney to help in the purification of blood and thus helps the patients with kidney related disorders.
Each real kidney, whose function is the elaboration and excretion of urine, consists of approximately one million nephrons compose each bean-shaped kidney. The filtration unit of the nephron, called the glomerulus, regulates the concentration within the body of important substances such as potassium, calcium, and hydrogen, and removes substances not produced by the body such as drugs and food additives. The filtrate, urine, leaves the nephron through a long tubule and collecting duct. Chemical signals triggered by the body's need for water and salt cause the walls of the tubule to become more or less permeable to these substances, which are reabsorbed accordingly from the urine.
FIG. 6: Cellulose acetate membrane sandwiched between the nano-carbon nets to form an artificial kidney membrane manufactured by Ideal Organs and Research
