{"id":223885,"date":"2025-10-24T04:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/a-reusable-washable-nanofiber-membrane-can-filter-water-sustainably"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:18:50","slug":"a-reusable-washable-nanofiber-membrane-can-filter-water-sustainably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/a-reusable-washable-nanofiber-membrane-can-filter-water-sustainably","title":{"rendered":"A reusable, washable nanofiber membrane can filter water sustainably"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-reusable-washable-nanofiber-membrane-can-filter-water-sustainably.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The antimicrobial triclosan is widely used in personal hygiene products, textiles and plastics, but when it enters the environment via wastewater, it poses a significant threat to aquatic organisms.<\/p>\n<p>A Cornell research group has developed a cyclodextrin-based fibrous membrane that in lab testing removed approximately 90% of triclosan from water. Their washable and reusable nanofiber material, fabricated via electrospinning\u2014a process that uses an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric field<\/a> to draw ultra-thin fibers from a liquid\u2014also effectively removed other micropollutants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe electrospinning produces a very thin fiber, less than 1 micron in diameter (a human hair is approximately 75 microns), which gives us <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high+surface+area\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high surface area<\/a> and excellent adsorption,\u201d said Mahmoud Aboelkheir, doctoral student in human centered design and lead author of the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The antimicrobial triclosan is widely used in personal hygiene products, textiles and plastics, but when it enters the environment via wastewater, it poses a significant threat to aquatic organisms. A Cornell research group has developed a cyclodextrin-based fibrous membrane that in lab testing removed approximately 90% of triclosan from water. Their washable and reusable nanofiber [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223885","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=223885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}