{"id":229728,"date":"2026-01-24T05:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/off-grid-filtration-technology-can-remove-over-99-of-nanoplastics-smaller-than-50-nm"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:16:23","slug":"off-grid-filtration-technology-can-remove-over-99-of-nanoplastics-smaller-than-50-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/off-grid-filtration-technology-can-remove-over-99-of-nanoplastics-smaller-than-50-nm","title":{"rendered":"Off-grid filtration technology can remove over 99% of nanoplastics smaller than 50 nm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/off-grid-filtration-technology-can-remove-over-99-of-nanoplastics-smaller-than-50-nm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Jeong-Min Baik\u2019s research group of the SKKU School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering has developed a reusable electrokinetic filtration platform capable of filtering more than 99% of ultrafine nanoplastic particles smaller than 50 nm even under commercial-level high-flow conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Plastic pollution, which has surged in recent years through industrialization and the pandemic era, poses a direct threat to human health. In particular, nanoplastics smaller than 100 nm\u2014thousands of times thinner than a human hair\u2014can readily pass through biological membranes in the body and trigger serious diseases such as immune dysregulation and carcinogenicity.<\/p>\n<p>However, conventional water purification systems have struggled to effectively remove nanoplastics of such small sizes, highlighting technological limitations; studies have even reported the presence of hundreds of thousands of particles in a single bottle of bottled water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jeong-Min Baik\u2019s research group of the SKKU School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering has developed a reusable electrokinetic filtration platform capable of filtering more than 99% of ultrafine nanoplastic particles smaller than 50 nm even under commercial-level high-flow conditions. Plastic pollution, which has surged in recent years through industrialization and the pandemic era, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,38,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229728","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=229728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}