Nanodiamond-Enabled Membranes for High-Temperature Water Treatment
Written by AZoNanoDec 10 2020
Despite the fact that water covers a major part of the planet Earth, just a fraction of it is clean enough for human use.
Microscopic nanodiamonds clump together when placed in water (shown above), but dissociate when in ethyl acetate to clean hot wastewater. Image Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020.
Thus, it is essential to recycle this resource as far as possible. Existing methods to purify water cannot properly deal with the very hot wastewater produced by a few industries.
However, scientists have now integrated amine-enhanced nanodiamond particles into membranes to overcome this difficulty. The findings have been reported in