Plasma-treated nano filters help purify world water supply

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http://www.csiro.au/en/Portals/Media/Plasma-treated-nano-filters-help-purify-world-water-supply.aspx

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Plasma-treated nano filters help purify world water supply[/font]

[font size=4]Access to safe drinking water is a step closer to being a reality for those in developing countries, thanks to new research published today in Nature Communications.[/font]

14 August 2013

[font size=3]The study paves the way for the next generation of portable water purification devices, which could provide relief to the 780 million people around the world who face every day without access to a clean water supply.

An international team of researchers – led by Associate Professor Hui Ying Yang from Singapore University of Technology and Design – showed that water purification membranes enhanced by plasma-treated carbon nanotubes are ideal for removing contaminants and brine from water.

The team included Dr Zhaojun Han and Professor Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov from CSIRO's world-leading Plasma Nanoscience Laboratories.

According to Dr Han, these membranes could be integrated into portable water purification devices the size of a tea pot that would be rechargeable, inexpensive and more effective than many existing filtration methods. Contaminated water would go in one end, and clean drinkable water would come out the other.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3220

[yesphan]

1. Can it filter fracking

contaminated water ? If so, it would go a long way in insuring safe drinking water in the US as well as
"developing" countries.

[silverweb]

3. Key question!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]And the answer is critical.

[boomer55]

2. and the elephant in the room....

overpopulation...