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Smart G-Nets to fight fresh water scarcity and mitigate micro-nanoplastics pollutan
Fresh water scarcity and aquatic plastic micro-nanoparticles pollutants, have been global issues. At AGIC, our research team has successfully developed cost affordable - graphene based nets. It able to be used to harvest fresh water from atmospheric air. As well as, potentially can be used to capture and reduce plastic micro-nanoparticles pollutants in aquatic environment.
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8/30/20252 min read
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Global fresh water scarcity threatens public health, food production, economic disruption and poverty, causing social unrest and potentially mass migration. The climate crisis exacerbates these issues through more frequent drought and floods, while un-sustainable human consumption and poor water management further deplete resources, requiring urgent global cooperation for solutions. Graphene and its derivative, graphene oxides (GO), in form Graphene Nets help harvest water from air. It works by: Capturing water vapor from the air. Trapping water molecules. Once the amount of water vapor adsorbed, it is heated. This will release the captured water, which can then condensed and collected. Key advantages of Graphene Nets in Atmospheric Water Harvesting (AWH) are: High Adsorption Capacity. Mechanical Strength and Flexibility. As well as Tunable Properties and Scalability.
Aquatic micro- and nano plastics (MNPs) are dangerous because they bioaccumulate and biomagnify in aquatic food webs, causing oxidative stress, DNA damage, inflammation, and organ damage in marine life. These particles can then transferred to human through sea food consumption, leading to similar toxic effects like gut microbiota disruption, potential cardiovascular issues, and chronic health problems. The danger is exacerbated by particles' ability to release toxic additives and their tendency to spread from the gastrointestinal tract to other organs, like the liver, lungs, even brain and placenta. Graphene Nets can mitigate mico- and nano plastics pollutions in aquatic environments by acting as Advanced Membrane Nets for filtration and adsorption, leveraging their large surface area and tunable surface chemistry to effectively capture these particles. These 2D materials, such as Graphene Oxides (GO), form membrane nets that physically block and chemically adsorb microplastics, with their effectiveness depending on particles size and surface modifying. It works by: filtrating, adsorbing and surface modifying. Key advantages of Graphene Membrane Nets are: high surface area, tunable surface chemistry and stability in water.
Challenges and future prospect of this applications are: membrane nets fouling, scaling up, environmental complexity and combined processes. As well as its end product cost affordability. Again, at this point, AGIC's product research & development extended team, led by DR Mochamad Zainuri, breaks all the above challenges by inventing simplest route to synthesizing manufacture, at scale, such multi purpose Smart G-Nets.
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