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Smart micro- and nanorobots for water purification. [PDF]

Nat Rev Bioeng, 2023
Less than 1% of Earth’s freshwater reserves is accessible. Industrialization, population growth and climate change are further exacerbating clean water shortage.
Urso M, Ussia M, Pumera M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Wood-inspired metamaterial catalyst for robust and high-throughput water purification. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Continuous industrialization and other human activities have led to severe water quality deterioration by harmful pollutants. Achieving robust and high-throughput water purification is challenging due to the coupling between mechanical strength, mass ...
Zhang L, Liu H, Song B, Gu J, Li L, Shi W, Li G, Zhong S, Liu H, Wang X, Fan J, Zhang Z, Wang P, Yao Y, Shi Y, Lu J.   +15 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Water Purification by Shock Electrodialysis: Deionization, Filtration, Separation, and Disinfection [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
The development of energy and infrastructure efficient water purification systems are among the most critical engineering challenges facing our society. Water purification is often a multi-step process involving filtration, desalination, and disinfection of a feedstream.
Aouad, Wassim, Bazant, Martin Z., Braff, William A., Deng, Daosheng, Schlumpberger, Sven, Suss, Matthew E.   +5 more
arxiv   +5 more sources

Protein nanofibrils for next generation sustainable water purification

Nature Communications, 2021
Water scarcity is a rapidly spreading global challenge but water purification technologies are often not sustainable. Here, the authors review the research on water purification technologies based on protein nanofibrils as a green and affordable solution
Mohammad Peydayesh, Raffaele Mezzenga
doaj   +2 more sources

The influence of recent bushfires on water quality and the operation of water purification systems in regional NSW [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Over the past decade, escalating extreme weather events have significantly affected New South Wales (NSW), Australia, with unprecedented droughts and intense fires.
Reed Jackson, K. C. Bal Krishna, Miao Li, Arumugam Sathasivan, Lalantha Senevirathna   +4 more
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Hybrid photothermal–photocatalyst sheets for solar-driven overall water splitting coupled to water purification

Nature Water, 2023
Photocatalytic water splitting converts sunlight directly into storable hydrogen, but commonly involves the use of pure water and land for plant installation while generating unusable waste heat.
C. Pornrungroj, Ariffin Bin Mohamad Annuar, Qian Wang, M. Rahaman, Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Virgil Andrei, E. Reisner   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Electrochemical Methods for Water Purification, Ion Separations, and Energy Conversion

Chemical Reviews, 2022
Agricultural development, extensive industrialization, and rapid growth of the global population have inadvertently been accompanied by environmental pollution.
Mohammad A. Alkhadra, Xiao Su, M. Suss, Huanhuan Tian, Eric N. Guyes, A. N. Shocron, K. Conforti, J. D. de Souza, Nayeong Kim, M. Tedesco, K. Khoiruddin, I. Wenten, J. Santiago, T. Hatton, M. Bazant   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Angstrom-confined catalytic water purification within Co-TiOx laminar membrane nanochannels

Nature Communications, 2022
The freshwater scarcity and inadequate access to clean water globally have rallied tremendous efforts in developing robust technologies for water purification and decontamination, and heterogeneous catalysis is a highly-promising solution.
Chenchen Meng, B. Ding, Shaoze Zhang, Lele Cui, K. Ostrikov, Ziyang Huang, Bo Yang, Jaehong Kim, Zhenghua Zhang   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Porous Materials for Water Purification.

Angewandte Chemie, 2022
Water pollution is a growing threat to humanity due to the pervasiveness of contaminants in water bodies. Significant efforts have been made to separate these hazardous components to purify polluted water through various methods.
Yanpei Song, Joshua Phipps, Changjia Zhu, Shengqian Ma   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Establishment and analysis of online energy baseline for water purification plants: A case study in Kaohsiung city, Taiwan [PDF]

Heliyon
Water and energy are closely linked and are crucial for national security and economic development. Most water providers prioritise the stability of water supply and aim to reduce energy consumption under the premise of a stable supply.
Da-Sheng Lee, Shih-Kai Fu, Chih-Wei Lai
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