{"id":111833,"date":"2020-08-23T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T01:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/loofah-inspired-aerogel-efficiently-filters-microbes-from-water"},"modified":"2020-08-23T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T01:22:20","slug":"loofah-inspired-aerogel-efficiently-filters-microbes-from-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/loofah-inspired-aerogel-efficiently-filters-microbes-from-water","title":{"rendered":"Loofah-inspired aerogel efficiently filters microbes from water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/loofah-inspired-aerogel-efficiently-filters-microbes-from-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millions of people worldwide die every year from waterborne diseases because of a lack of affordable, practical disinfection technologies. To address this need, researchers have developed a strong, flexible filter out of a silica aerogel that efficiently kills bacteria, resists getting clogged, and needs just a quick dip in dilute bleach to renew its disinfecting properties.<\/p>\n<p>Read about the loofah-inspired aerogel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lhulJo\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lhulJo<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Low-cost, functionalized silica material kills bacteria instantly and is easy to clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people worldwide die every year from waterborne diseases because of a lack of affordable, practical disinfection technologies. To address this need, researchers have developed a strong, flexible filter out of a silica aerogel that efficiently kills bacteria, resists getting clogged, and needs just a quick dip in dilute bleach to renew its disinfecting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111833","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}