{"id":88107,"date":"2019-02-23T05:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/scientists-develop-a-material-that-kills-99-9-of-bacteria-in-drinking-water-using-nothing-but-light"},"modified":"2019-02-23T05:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T13:22:34","slug":"scientists-develop-a-material-that-kills-99-9-of-bacteria-in-drinking-water-using-nothing-but-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/scientists-develop-a-material-that-kills-99-9-of-bacteria-in-drinking-water-using-nothing-but-light","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Develop a Material That Kills 99.9% of Bacteria in Drinking Water Using Nothing But Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-a-material-that-kills-99-9-of-bacteria-in-drinking-water-using-nothing-but-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ingenius.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers in China have developed a new way to remove bacteria from water that they say is both highly efficient and environmentally sound.<\/p>\n<p>By shining ultraviolet light onto a two-dimensional sheet of a compound called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graphitic_carbon_nitride\">graphitic carbon nitride<\/a>, the team\u2019s prototype can purify 10 litres (2.6 liquid gallons) of water in just one hour, killing virtually all the harmful bacteria present.<\/p>\n<p>This type of technique for water cleaning is known as photocatalytic disinfection, and it is often talked about \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1001074215002247\">and ardently researched<\/a> \u2014 as an appealing alternative to current water filtration systems, such as chlorination or ozone disinfection, neither of which are particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/pureprocesstechnology.com\/environmental-effect-water-purification\/\">eco-friendly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-2d-material-can-purify-10-litres-of-water-in-under-an-hour-using-only-light\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-2d-material-can-purify-10-lit...only-light<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingenius. Researchers in China have developed a new way to remove bacteria from water that they say is both highly efficient and environmentally sound. By shining ultraviolet light onto a two-dimensional sheet of a compound called graphitic carbon nitride, the team\u2019s prototype can purify 10 litres (2.6 liquid gallons) of water in just one hour, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88107","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}