{"id":24557,"date":"2016-04-11T22:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T05:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/microbots-can-clean-up-polluted-water"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:02:38","slug":"microbots-can-clean-up-polluted-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/microbots-can-clean-up-polluted-water","title":{"rendered":"Microbots can clean up polluted water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microbots-can-clean-up-polluted-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>Phys.org<\/i>)\u2014A new study shows that a swarm of hundreds of thousands of tiny microbots, each smaller than the width of a human hair, can be deployed into industrial wastewater to absorb and remove toxic heavy metals. The researchers found that the microbots can remove 95% of the lead in polluted water in one hour, and can be reused multiple times, potentially offering a more effective and economical way to remove heavy metals than previous methods.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, Diana Vilela, et al., have published a paper on the lead-adsorbing microbots in a recent issue of <i>Nano Letters<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work is a step toward the development of smart remediation system where we can target and remove traces of pollutant without producing an additional contamination,\u201d coauthor Samuel S\u00e1nchez, at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany; the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia in Barcelona; and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies in Barcelona, told <i>Phys.org<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-04-microbots-polluted.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;04-microbots-polluted.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)\u2014A new study shows that a swarm of hundreds of thousands of tiny microbots, each smaller than the width of a human hair, can be deployed into industrial wastewater to absorb and remove toxic heavy metals. The researchers found that the microbots can remove 95% of the lead in polluted water in one hour, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67724,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557\/revisions\/67724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}