{"id":77469,"date":"2018-04-03T14:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T21:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/novel-hydrogel-based-solar-vapor-generator-yields-clean-drinking-water"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:03:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:03:35","slug":"novel-hydrogel-based-solar-vapor-generator-yields-clean-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/novel-hydrogel-based-solar-vapor-generator-yields-clean-drinking-water","title":{"rendered":"Novel Hydrogel-Based Solar Vapor Generator Yields Clean Drinking Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-hydrogel-based-solar-vapor-generator-yields-clean-drinking-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finding a cheap and effective water purification process would have global implications.<\/p>\n<p>A research team from the University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Cockrell School of Engineering has developed a new cost-effective and compact technology that combines gel-polymer hybrid materials to improve the purification process for drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>The new materials possess both hydrophilic\u2014an attraction to water\u2014qualities and semiconducting, or solar-absorbing properties. This enables the hydrogel to produce clean, safe drinking water from virtually any source, whether it\u2019s from the oceans or contaminated supplies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rdmag.com\/article\/2018\/04\/novel-hydrogel-based-solar-vapor-generator-yields-clean-drinking-water\">https:\/\/www.rdmag.com\/article\/2018\/04\/novel-hydrogel-based-s...king-water<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a cheap and effective water purification process would have global implications. A research team from the University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Cockrell School of Engineering has developed a new cost-effective and compact technology that combines gel-polymer hybrid materials to improve the purification process for drinking water. The new materials possess both hydrophilic\u2014an attraction to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77469","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77511,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77469\/revisions\/77511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}