{"id":172608,"date":"2023-09-23T05:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T10:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/brazilian-researchers-develop-method-of-purifying-water-contaminated-by-glyphosate"},"modified":"2023-09-23T05:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T10:23:06","slug":"brazilian-researchers-develop-method-of-purifying-water-contaminated-by-glyphosate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/brazilian-researchers-develop-method-of-purifying-water-contaminated-by-glyphosate","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian researchers develop method of purifying water contaminated by glyphosate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brazilian-researchers-develop-method-of-purifying-water-contaminated-by-glyphosate3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at S\u00e3o Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil have developed a strategy for removing glyphosate, one of the world\u2019s most frequently used herbicides, from water. Inspired by the concept of the circular economy, the technique is based on sugarcane bagasse, a waste material produced by sugar and ethanol plants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsolated and chemically functionalized sugarcane bagasse fibers can be used as adsorbent material. Glyphosate adheres to its surface and is removed as a water contaminant by filtration, decantation or centrifugation,\u201d Maria Vit\u00f3ria Guimar\u00e3es Leal, told Ag\u00eancia FAPESP.<\/p>\n<p>She is the first author of an article on the research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/pac-2022-1205\/html\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Pure and Applied Chemistry<\/i>. Adsorption is a process whereby molecules dispersed in a liquid or gaseous medium adhere to a solid insoluble surface, which is typically porous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at S\u00e3o Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil have developed a strategy for removing glyphosate, one of the world\u2019s most frequently used herbicides, from water. Inspired by the concept of the circular economy, the technique is based on sugarcane bagasse, a waste material produced by sugar and ethanol plants. \u201cIsolated and chemically functionalized sugarcane [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172608","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=172608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}