Here we are sharing a piece of big news with you. In what could mark a major step toward solving the problem of freshwater scarcity scientists have evolved a device that filters salt water a thousand times faster than normally used devices. On an industrial scale, seawater is made suitable for drinking through the desalination process. It involves the removal of salt to produce fresh water that is further prepared into plants and used for drinking. In a new study, scientists devised a new method of purifying salt water in a faster and more efficient way. Here we have more information about the news and we will share it with you in this article, so let’s start the article. Follow More Update On GetIndiaNews.com
According to the new study advertised in Science, scientists have created a new method for filtering salt water in a faster and more efficient way. They created ingenious use of fluorine-based nanostructures and successfully separated salt from water. Associate Professor Yoshimitsu Itoh of the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Tokyo and his teammate started exploring the potential of nanoscale fluoro tubes or channels.
Itoh said ” We were eager to see how effective a fluorine-containing nanochannel may be at selective filtering numerous compounds, especially water and salt. With few complex computer simulations, we have determined it was time and effort to do a working test. The scientists chemically fabricated nanoscopic fluorine rings stacked and implanted them in an else waterproof lipid layer and made a test filtration membrane. This structure resembled the organic molecules found in cell walls. Many test specimens had been developed with nanograins in sizes from 1 to 2 nanometers. After that ltoh investigated the presence of chlorine ions on each side of a membrane, which is a main part of the salt in addition to Sodium. Scroll down the page for more information about the news.
As peer the ltoh, they have found that the smaller test sample worked as it proudly refused incoming salt molecules.” It was exciting to see the result on my own,”. He also noted that the larger ones also affected better than other desalination methods, including carbon nanotube filters. The fluorine-based filters not only filter water, but according to ltoh, it has done the job a thousand times after then industrial units. Even the carbon nano-tube-based desalinators were 2,400 times slower than fluorine, he said. Stay tuned for more updates.
