{"id":211237,"date":"2025-04-12T05:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/plasma-synthesized-photothermal-material-could-enable-efficient-solar-powered-water-purification"},"modified":"2025-04-12T05:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:20:52","slug":"plasma-synthesized-photothermal-material-could-enable-efficient-solar-powered-water-purification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/plasma-synthesized-photothermal-material-could-enable-efficient-solar-powered-water-purification","title":{"rendered":"Plasma-synthesized photothermal material could enable efficient solar-powered water purification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plasma-synthesized-photothermal-material-could-enable-efficient-solar-powered-water-purification.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technology for converting solar energy into thermal energy is ever evolving and has numerous applications. A breakthrough in the laboratory of Professor My Ali El Khakani at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has made a significant contribution to the field.<\/p>\n<p>Professor El Khakani specializes in plasma-laser processes for the development of nanostructured materials. He and his team at the \u00c9nergie Mat\u00e9riaux T\u00e9l\u00e9communications Research Center have developed a new photothermal material that converts sunlight into heat with unmatched efficiency. The results of their work were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-82091-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Scientific Reports.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For several decades, stoichiometric titanium oxides have been known for their exceptional photocatalytic properties. A sub-stoichiometric form of this material, characterized by a slight deficiency in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/oxygen+atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">oxygen atoms<\/a>, is referred to as \u201cMagn\u00e9li phases,\u201d with specific compositions exhibiting distinct properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology for converting solar energy into thermal energy is ever evolving and has numerous applications. A breakthrough in the laboratory of Professor My Ali El Khakani at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has made a significant contribution to the field. Professor El Khakani specializes in plasma-laser processes for the development of nanostructured materials. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211237","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}