The glyphosate filter

New class of materials selectively and efficiently removes herbicide from groundwater

13-Apr-2023 - Clean drinking water is essential. Therefore, an international research team led by Dominik Eder has now shown how groundwater can be efficiently freed from pollutants such as glyphosate. Contaminated drinking water poses a major threat to our health. However, various pollutants such as ...

Pollution cleanup method destroys toxic “forever chemicals”

Breakthrough process was developed for drinking water treatment and toxic site remediation

19-Dec-2022 - An insidious category of carcinogenic pollutants known as “forever chemicals” may not be so permanent after all. University of California, Riverside, chemical engineering and environmental scientists recently published new methods to chemically break up these harmful substances found in drinking ...

System selectively sequesters toxins from water

09-Aug-2018 - Rice University scientists are developing technology to remove contaminants from water - but only as many as necessary. The Rice lab of engineer Qilin Li is building a treatment system that can be tuned to selectively pull toxins from drinking water and wastewater from factories, sewage systems ...

Composite material for water purification

Removal of multiple contaminants from water by supported ionic liquid phases

17-Jan-2017 - Fresh, clean water coming directly from the tap is a true luxury. In developing countries, people often have no choice but to use a contaminated river for drinking water. Water filters can help by quickly converting polluted surface or ground water into safe drinking water. In the journal ...

Dirty to drinkable

03-Aug-2016 - Graphene oxide has been hailed as a veritable wonder material; when incorporated into nanocellulose foam, the lab-created substance is light, strong and flexible, conducting heat and electricity quickly and efficiently. Now, a team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis has found a ...

High-tech materials purify water with sunlight

18-Mar-2014 - Sunlight plus a common titanium pigment might be the secret recipe for ridding pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other potentially harmful pollutants from drinking water. Scientists combined several high-tech components to make an easy-to-use water purifier that could work with the world's most ...

Aluminum should yield new technological advances

31-Oct-2013 - Researchers at Oregon State University and the University of Oregon announced a scientific advance that has eluded researchers for more than 100 years – a platform to fully study and understand the aqueous chemistry of aluminum, one of the world's most important metals. The findings, reported in ...