{"id":111684,"date":"2020-08-20T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T20:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-create-water-filtration-membranes-that-can-clean-themselves"},"modified":"2020-08-20T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T20:24:35","slug":"scientists-create-water-filtration-membranes-that-can-clean-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-create-water-filtration-membranes-that-can-clean-themselves","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create water filtration membranes that can clean themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-water-filtration-membranes-that-can-clean-themselves3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a light-activated coating for filtration membranes\u2014the kind used in water treatment facilities, at semiconductor manufacturing sites and within the food and beverage industry\u2014to make them self-cleaning, eliminating the need to shut systems down in order to repair them.<\/p>\n<p>Cheap and effective, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/filtration+membranes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">filtration membranes<\/a> have been around for years but have always been vulnerable to clogging from organic and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/inorganic+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">inorganic materials<\/a> that stop up its pores over time, a phenomenon known as fouling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything you stick in water is going to become fouled sooner or later,\u201d said Argonne senior scientist Seth Darling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a light-activated coating for filtration membranes\u2014the kind used in water treatment facilities, at semiconductor manufacturing sites and within the food and beverage industry\u2014to make them self-cleaning, eliminating the need to shut systems down in order to repair them. Cheap and effective, water filtration [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}