{"id":194066,"date":"2024-08-05T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/self-powered-pump-harnesses-light-and-chemistry-to-target-capture-pollutants"},"modified":"2024-08-05T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:27:38","slug":"self-powered-pump-harnesses-light-and-chemistry-to-target-capture-pollutants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/self-powered-pump-harnesses-light-and-chemistry-to-target-capture-pollutants","title":{"rendered":"Self-powered pump harnesses light and chemistry to target, capture pollutants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-powered-pump-harnesses-light-and-chemistry-to-target-capture-pollutants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dartmouth researchers have developed a self-powered pump that uses natural light and chemistry to target and remove specific water pollutants, according to a new report in the journal Science (\u201cA molecular anion pump\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>As water enters the pump, a wavelength of light activates a synthetic molecular receptor designed to bond to negatively charged ions, or anions, a class of pollutants linked to metabolic disruptions in plants and animals. A second wavelength deactivates the receptors as water exits the pump and causes them to release the pollutants, trapping them in a non-reactive substrate until they can be safely discarded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a proof of concept that you can use a synthetic receptor to convert light energy into chemical potential for removing a contaminant from a waste source,\u201d says the study\u2019s senior author, Ivan Aprahamian, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry at Dartmouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dartmouth researchers have developed a self-powered pump that uses natural light and chemistry to target and remove specific water pollutants, according to a new report in the journal Science (\u201cA molecular anion pump\u201d). As water enters the pump, a wavelength of light activates a synthetic molecular receptor designed to bond to negatively charged ions, or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194066","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}