{"id":28404,"date":"2016-07-28T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T02:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/dirty-to-drinkable-novel-hybrid-nanomaterials-quickly-transform-water"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:03:01","slug":"dirty-to-drinkable-novel-hybrid-nanomaterials-quickly-transform-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/dirty-to-drinkable-novel-hybrid-nanomaterials-quickly-transform-water","title":{"rendered":"Dirty to drinkable: Novel hybrid nanomaterials quickly transform water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dirty-to-drinkable-novel-hybrid-nanomaterials-quickly-transform-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis has found a way to use graphene oxide sheets to transform dirty water into drinking water, and it could be a global game-changer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that for countries where there is ample sunlight, such as India, you\u2019ll be able to take some dirty water, evaporate it using our material, and collect fresh water,\u201d said Srikanth Singamaneni, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the School of Engineering &amp; Applied Science.<\/p>\n<p>The new approach combines bacteria-produced cellulose and graphene oxide to form a bi-layered biofoam. A paper detailing the research is available online in <em>Advanced Materials<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160726131654.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160726131654.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, a team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis has found a way to use graphene oxide sheets to transform dirty water into drinking water, and it could be a global game-changer. \u201cWe hope that for countries where there is ample sunlight, such as India, you\u2019ll be able to take some dirty water, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28404","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=28404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61005,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28404\/revisions\/61005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}