{"id":119081,"date":"2021-02-01T22:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T06:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/ingenious-wrinkled-graphene-could-be-the-most-promising-water-filter-yet"},"modified":"2021-02-03T06:41:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:41:26","slug":"ingenious-wrinkled-graphene-could-be-the-most-promising-water-filter-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/ingenious-wrinkled-graphene-could-be-the-most-promising-water-filter-yet","title":{"rendered":"Ingenious \u2018Wrinkled\u2019 Graphene Could Be The Most Promising Water Filter Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ingenious-wrinkled-graphene-could-be-the-most-promising-water-filter-yet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/graphene\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Graphene\">Graphene<\/a> continues to dazzle us with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/graphene-paired-sheets-diamene-deformation-diamond-property\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">strength<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/graphene-reveals-a-super-rare-form-of-magnetism-when-3-layers-combine-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">versatility<\/a> \u2013 exciting new applications are being discovered for it all the time, and now scientists have found a way of manipulating the wonder material so that it can better filter impurities out of water.<\/p>\n<p>The two-dimensional material comprised of carbon atoms has been studied as a way of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-create-a-graphene-based-sieve-that-turns-seawater-into-drinking-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cleaning up water<\/a> before, but the new method could offer the most promising approach yet. It\u2019s all down to the exploitation of what are known as van der Waals gaps: the tiny spaces that appear between 2D nanomaterials when they\u2019re layered on top of each other.<\/p>\n<p>These nanochannels can be used in a variety of ways, which scientists are now exploring, but the thinness of graphene causes a problem for filtration: liquid has to spend much of its time travelling along the horizontal plane, rather than the vertical one, which would be much quicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene continues to dazzle us with its strength and its versatility \u2013 exciting new applications are being discovered for it all the time, and now scientists have found a way of manipulating the wonder material so that it can better filter impurities out of water. The two-dimensional material comprised of carbon atoms has been studied [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119081","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119127,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119081\/revisions\/119127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}