Nanoparticles Clean Contaminated Water
31 December 2006, 14:35
Categories: nanoparticles filtration
Trichloroethene (TCE) pollution of groundwater has serious implications for human health and the environment, and is also expensive to clean up. In 2005, researchers at Rice University and Georgia Institute of Technology found that gold (Au) nanoparticles coated with palladium (Pd) are extremely effective catalysts for rapidly breaking down TCE toxins into less harmful products because of their high surface-area-to-volume ratio. Research into these nanoparticles has continued over the past 18 months and Michael Wong, a researcher at Rice, recently received TR35 honors for his research into Pd+Au nanoparticle filters that can be used to treat contaminated groundwater.
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