{"id":196803,"date":"2024-09-30T09:22:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/new-filtration-material-could-remove-long-lasting-chemicals-from-water"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:22:35","slug":"new-filtration-material-could-remove-long-lasting-chemicals-from-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/new-filtration-material-could-remove-long-lasting-chemicals-from-water","title":{"rendered":"New filtration material could remove long-lasting chemicals from water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-filtration-material-could-remove-long-lasting-chemicals-from-water2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water contamination by the chemicals used in today\u2019s technology is a rapidly growing problem globally. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41370-018-0094-1\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found that 98 percent of people tested had detectable levels of PFAS, a family of particularly long-lasting compounds also known as \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d in their bloodstream.<\/p>\n<p>A new filtration material developed by researchers at MIT might provide a nature-based solution to this stubborn contamination issue. The material, based on natural silk and cellulose, can remove a wide variety of these persistent chemicals as well as heavy metals. And, its antimicrobial properties can help keep the filters from fouling.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acsnano.4c07409\" target=\"_blank\">described in the journal <em>ACS Nano<\/em><\/a>, in a paper by MIT postdoc Yilin Zhang, professor of civil and environmental engineering Benedetto Marelli, and four others from MIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water contamination by the chemicals used in today\u2019s technology is a rapidly growing problem globally. A recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found that 98 percent of people tested had detectable levels of PFAS, a family of particularly long-lasting compounds also known as \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d in their bloodstream. A new filtration material [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196803","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=196803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}