{"id":187345,"date":"2024-04-14T08:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/mit-researchers-reveal-incredible-method-to-remove-array-of-harmful-pollutants-from-water-most-technologies-focus-only-on-specific-molecules"},"modified":"2024-04-14T08:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T13:22:39","slug":"mit-researchers-reveal-incredible-method-to-remove-array-of-harmful-pollutants-from-water-most-technologies-focus-only-on-specific-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/mit-researchers-reveal-incredible-method-to-remove-array-of-harmful-pollutants-from-water-most-technologies-focus-only-on-specific-molecules","title":{"rendered":"MIT researchers reveal incredible method to remove array of harmful pollutants from water: \u2018Most technologies focus only on specific molecules\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/79tJNLPQ9vI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering have <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2024\/zwitterionic-hydrogels-swiftly-eliminate-micropollutants-from-water-0109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">created<\/a> a new method of cleaning micropollutants from water, using zwitterionic molecules \u2014 i.e., molecules with the same number of positive and negative charges.<\/p>\n<p>Devashish Gokhale, a PhD student and one of the researchers, explained zwitterionic molecules by comparing them to magnets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn a magnet, you have a north pole and a south pole that stick to each other, and on a zwitterionic molecule, you have a positive charge and a negative charge which stick to each other in a similar way,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2024\/zwitterionic-hydrogels-swiftly-eliminate-micropollutants-from-water-0109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in a release by MIT News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering have created a new method of cleaning micropollutants from water, using zwitterionic molecules \u2014 i.e., molecules with the same number of positive and negative charges. Devashish Gokhale, a PhD student and one of the researchers, explained zwitterionic molecules by comparing them to magnets. \u201cOn a magnet, you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187345","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}