A new type of battery developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide captured from power plants. Rather than attempting to convert carbon dioxide to specialized chemicals using metal catalysts, which is currently highly challenging, this battery could continuously convert carbon dioxide into a solid mineral carbonate as it discharges.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhsyDZ-l50M

Robots inspect random objects, and visually understand them enough to accomplish specific tasks without ever having seen them before.


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A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota have, for the first time, fully 3D printed an array of light receptors on a hemispherical surface. This discovery marks a significant step toward creating a "bionic eye" that could someday help blind people see or sighted people see better.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNCneU2pYAo

Emirates Airline has unveiled a new aircraft that features virtual windows. And, it paves the way for removing all windows from future planes, making them lighter and faster.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY3Lhv-VBqA

Anki is now releasing an autonomous Home Robot named as Vector. The Always-on Vector Robot can see, hear, and feel, allowing it to react naturally to the world around it.


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MIT researchers have taken a step toward solving it i-e enabling direct data transmission between underwater and airborne devices. The system, called “translational acoustic-RF communication” (TARF), is still in its early stages. But it represents a “milestone” that could open new capabilities in water-air communications. Using the system, military submarines, for instance, wouldn’t need to surface to communicate with airplanes, compromising their location.


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A team of engineers at the University of Delaware is developing next-generation smart textiles by creating flexible carbon nanotube composite coatings on a wide range of fibers, including cotton, nylon and wool. Fabric coated with this sensing technology could be used in future “smart garments” where the sensors are slipped into the soles of shoes or stitched into clothing for detecting human motion.


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To predict when morning traffic is likely to grind to a halt, it may be more effective to examine how electricity is used in the middle of the night instead of travel-time data. By analyzing household electricity use in Austin, Texas, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University were able to predict when morning traffic would jam some segments of Austin's highways.


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OpenAI has trained a human-like robot hand to manipulate physical objects with unprecedented dexterity. Their system, called Dactyl, is trained entirely in simulation and transfers its knowledge to reality, adapting to real-world physics. Dactyl learns from scratch using the same general-purpose reinforcement learning algorithm and code as OpenAI Five. The results show that it’s possible to train agents in simulation and have them solve real-world tasks, without physically-accurate modeling of the world.


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Now Researchers in Japan report an experiment in which healthy participants were able to extend their capabilities by using a noninvasive BMI to control a human-like robotic arm and achieve multitasking. Experimental results demonstrate that participants were able to reliably control the robotic arm with the BMI to perform a goal-oriented task while simultaneously using their own arms to do a different task.


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The hormone cortisol rises and falls naturally throughout the day and can spike in response to stress but current methods for measuring cortisol levels require waiting several days for results from a lab. By the time a person learns the results of a cortisol test – which may inform treatment for certain medical conditions – it is likely different from the current level of cortisol. Clinical tests that measure cortisol provide an objective gauge of emotional or physical stress in research subjects and can help doctors tell if a patient’s adrenal or pituitary gland is working properly. If the prototype version of the wearable device becomes a reality, it could allow people with an imbalance to monitor their own levels at home.


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A flying car that will not require a pilot's licence to operate has been unveiled in California.This flying Car is named as BlackFly and it can travel for up to 25 miles at a speed of 62mph. The creator of BlackFly is Opener, an aviation company based in Palo Alto, California. The OPENER team has spent the last nine years in stealth mode, designing, developing, and testing new innovative technologies which have now evolved into the zero-emission BlackFly vehicles. Fault-tolerant design and triple modular redundancy reside at the core of these vehicles. Eight propulsion systems, spread across two wings, provide for multiple-failure security. According to Opener, their flyingcar "BlackFly" works best, when taking off and landing from grassy surfaces.


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Millions of people take upwards of five medications a day, but testing the side effects of such combinations is impractical. Now, Stanford computer scientists have figured out how to predict side effects using artificial intelligence (AI). The Researchers describe an artificial intelligence system for predicting, not simply tracking, potential side effects from drug combinations. That system, called Decagon, could help doctors make better decisions about which drugs to prescribe and help researchers find better combinations of drugs to treat complex diseases.


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MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris, and quickly recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved, all while essentially blind.The 90-pound mechanical beast — about the size of a full-grown Labrador — is intentionally designed to do all this without relying on cameras or any external environmental sensors. Instead, it nimbly “feels” its way through its surroundings in a way that engineers describe as “blind locomotion,” much like making one’s way across a pitch-black room.The researchers tested the algorithm in experiments with the Cheetah 3 trotting on a laboratory treadmill and climbing on a staircase. Both surfaces were littered with random objects such as wooden blocks and rolls of tape.


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Children with autism spectrum conditions often have trouble recognizing the emotional states of people around them . For Example, distinguishing a happy face from a fearful face.To remedy this, some therapists use a kid-friendly robot to demonstrate those emotions and to engage the children in imitating the emotions and responding to them in appropriate ways.This type of therapy works best, however, if the robot can smoothly interpret the child’s own behavior — whether he or she is interested and excited or paying attention — during the therapy.Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have now developed a type of personalized machine learning "EngageME" that helps robots estimate the engagement and interest of each child during these interactions, using data that are unique to that ch


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Stanford researchers have developed a new type of soft, growing robot.

This newly developed vine-like robot can grow across long distances without moving its whole body. It could prove useful in search and rescue operations and medical applications.

Inspired by natural organisms that cover distance by growing – such as vines, fungi and nerve cells – the researchers have made a proof of concept of their soft, growing robot and have run it through some challenging tests.

To investigate what their robot can do, the group created prototypes that move through various obstacles, travel toward a designated goal, and grow into a free-standing structure. This robot could serve a wide range of purposes, particularly in the realms of search and rescue and medical device.


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University of Washington researchers have invented a cellphone that requires no batteries — a major leap forward in moving beyond chargers, cords and dying phones. Instead, the phone harvests the few microwatts of power it requires from either ambient radio signals or light.

The team also made Skype calls using its battery-free phone, demonstrating that the prototype made of commercial, off-the-shelf components can receive and transmit speech and communicate with a base station.

The research team eliminated a power-hungry step in most modern cellular transmissions . i-e It eliminated the process of converting analog signals that convey sound into digital data that a phone can understand. This process consumes so much energy that it’s been impossible to design a phone that can rely on ambient power sources.

The battery-free phone does still require a small amount of energy to perform some operations. The prototype has a power budget of 3.5 microwatts.

The UW researchers demonstrated how to harvest this small amount of energy from two different sources. The battery-free phone prototype can operate on power gathered from ambient radio signals transmitted by a base station up to 31 feet away.

Using power harvested from ambient light with a tiny solar cell — roughly the size of a grain of rice — the device was able to communicate with a base station that was 50 feet away.

Next, the research team plans to focus on improving the battery-free phone’s operating range and encrypting conversations to make them secure. The team is also working to stream video over a battery-free cellphone and add a visual display feature to the phone using low-power E-ink screens.

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Digital technology is taking over the world, and scientists are hard at work finding better ways to store data, lots of it and for long periods of time.

Scientists are exploring new materials for data storage as well as new methods for printing data on their chosen medium.

Here are a few of the emerging storage technologies to be explained.

1. 5D Disc - Eternal 5D Data Storage could record the History of Humankind:
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiL_yhtWHMo

2.IBM Stores Data on a Single Atom. A Credit Card-sized Device can store 35 Million Songs:
IBM has created the world’s smallest magnet using a single atom – and stored one bit of data on it.
Currently, hard disk drives use about 100,000 atoms to store a single bit.

The ability to read and write one bit on one atom creates new possibilities for developing significantly smaller and denser storage devices, that could someday, enable storing the entire iTunes library of 35 million songs on a device the size of a credit card.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77nbk7d3hKs

3.World's First Light-based Memory Chip to store data permanently:
The world’s first entirely light-based memory chip to store data permanently has been developed by material scientists at Oxford University.

The device makes use of materials used in CDs and DVDs, and it could help dramatically improve the speed of modern computing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KlV_VXNuEw

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Google Lens is the intelligent camera app that can actually read, understand and interact with the information within your photos.

Google said its new Lens app will be available later this year. Google's CEO Sunder Pichai made the announcement about Google Lens at his keynote speech in the Google I/O 17.

Google Lens is a super-powered version of Google Googles

Google Lens Turns Your Phone Camera Into an AI-Powered Visual Search Tool

At launch, Google Lens will be implemented into Google Assistant and Google Photos.

Google Lens is an AI-powered technology that uses your smartphone camera and deep machine learning to not only detect an object but understand what it detects and offer actions based on what it sees.

To translate something, you need only snap a picture of it and call on Google Lens’ smarts.

Just point your camera at a place you’re interested in, and Google Lens will scan it.

Google Lens lets you snap a picture of just about anything, and then it will tell you everything you need to know about it—during the keynote, Sundar Pichai demonstrated this feature by identifying a common lily.

Only need to snap a picture of the password label on the router and it will automatically connect.

Buying tickets to shows and movies on our phones is already pretty effortless, but Google Lens wants to make it a complete breeze. If you walk down a street and see a marquee that shows a band that’s playing, Google Lens will spring to life as soon as you snap a picture.


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Nanotechnology is a broad term that covers many areas of science, research and technology. Nanotechnology is a field of research and innovation concerned with building 'things' - generally, materials and devices - on the scale of atoms and molecules

This Video explains NanoTechnology in simple way so that anyone can easily understand about Nanotechnology and potential applications of nanotechnology and the risks associated with nanotechnology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC1aPOqoYWc

Potential Benefits of Nanotechnology:

1)Cleaning your teeth without Toothpaste
A group of Japanese techies have designed a toothbrush that uses super skinny nylon bristles wrapped in nano-size mineral ions to scrub teeth clean. Stains are lifted, plaque and other unwanted materials are avoided, and the enamel that defends your teeth from decay is protected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9OVurEruuw

2)Tackling climate change:
The fight against climate change means we need new ways to generate and use electricity, and nanotechnology is already playing a role.

A new Swedish company named "HyMeAir" is seeking to raise funds on kickstarter.com to support the development of its Nano Towers that will filter out hydrogen and methane from the air when the wind blows .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iif8Nk12WFY

3)5D Data Storage:
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiL_yhtWHMo

4)Nanotechnology in textiles:
Researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia say they have developed a cheap and efficient new way to infuse textiles with tiny strands of silver – which can degrade organic matter when exposed to light.

The challenge for researchers has been to bring the concept out of the lab by working out how to build these nanostructures on an industrial scale and permanently attach them to textiles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLpdnaZVhN0

5)Detection of Disease:
3D rendering of IBM Research lab-on-a-chip nanotechnology that can separate biological particles down to 20 nanometers (nm) in diameter, a scale that gives access to important particles such as DNA, viruses and exosomes.

The IBM team's work has focused on exosomes which are vesicles that contain information about the health status of the originating cell that they are shed from, revealing the presence and state of developing cancer and other diseases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJ02gheVFM

6)Create Cement Paste for Concrete:
Researchers at MIT are seeking to redesign concrete — the most widely used human-made material in the world — by following nature’s blueprints.

In a paper published online in the journal Construction and Building Materials, the team contrasts cement paste — concrete’s binding ingredient — with the structure and properties of natural materials such as bones, shells, and deep-sea sponges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLhLWW-4s7U

7)Complete absorbtions of Light:
A British company, called "Surrey NanoSystems" has produced a strange material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record.

This "super black" material is named as "vantablack" by combining first letters of the term "Vertically Aligned NanoTube Arrays". It can be used for enabling astronomical cameras, telescopes and infrared scanning systems to function more effectively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhRiDsmZMag

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In the next 20 years, nanotechnology will touch the life of nearly every person on the planet. Is it true?

The past few years in the solar industry have been a race to the top in terms of solar cell efficiency. Today's technology allows us to harness this resource in several ways, giving the public and commercial entities flexible ways to employ both the light and heat of the sun.


Here are some of the latest emerging solar panel technologies

1.Graphene-coated solar panel generates Electricity from Rain Drops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQbTX5KPakg

Scientists in China are developing a new kind of solar panel that could be used to generate power from rain drops.

By using a thin layer of highly conductive graphene, the solar cell could effectively harness power from rain. The salt contained in rain separates into ions (ammonium, calcium and sodium), making graphene and natural water a great combination for creating energy.

The water actually clings to the graphene, forming a dual layer i-e pseudocapacitor, with the graphene electrons. The energy difference between these layers is so strong that it generates electricity.

According to the scientists , this new technology could guide the design of advanced all-weather solar cells.i-e The new solar cell can be excited by incident light on sunny days and raindrops on rainy days

All-weather solar cells are promising in solving the energy crisis.

2.World’s Most Efficient Rooftop Solar Panel with more than 22% Module Efficiency:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD4AkGN2UgQ
The Sun provides endless energy, but the average solar cell panel can convert only 14 to 20% of the energy it collects into usable electricity.

Now, American energy company SolarCity has built the world’s most efficient rooftop solar panel, with a module efficiency exceeding 22 percent. The new SolarCity panel generates more power per square foot and harvests more energy over a year than any other rooftop panel in production, and will be the highest volume solar panel manufactured in the Western Hemisphere

SolarCity’s panel was measured with 22.04 percent module-level efficiency by Renewable Energy Test Center, a third-party certification testing provider for photovoltaic and renewable energy products. SolarCity’s new panel is created via a proprietary process that significantly reduces the manufacturing cost relative to other high-efficiency technologies, and it will be the same size as standard efficiency solar panels, but produces 30-40 percent more power.

3.Turning Salt water into Drinking water using Solar power:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwGcMsaKt4

According to the Securing Water for Food agency, between 2000 and 2050 water demand is expected to increase 55 percent globally, meaning the number of people affected by water scarcity will continue to grow. By 2025, two-thirds of the world's population could be living in severe water stress conditions.

The MIT team's this new desalination technology "electrodialysis" is comparatively less expensive.

Both electrodialysis and reverse osmosis require the use of membranes, but the membranes in an electrodialysis system are exposed to lower pressures and can be cleared of salt buildup simply by reversing the electrical polarity.

That means the expensive membranes should last much longer and require less maintenance. In addition, electrodialysis systems recover a much higher percentage of the water — more than 90 percent, compared with about 40 to 60 percent from reverse-osmosis systems, a big advantage in areas where water is scarce.

4.Solar Cell captures CO2 and Sunlight, produces Fuel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkkNgGtGZuo

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have engineered a potentially game-changing solar cell that cheaply and efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into usable hydrocarbon fuel, using only sunlight for energy.

Unlike conventional solar cells, which convert sunlight into electricity that must be stored in heavy batteries, the new device essentially does the work of plants, converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into fuel, solving two crucial problems at once. A solar farm of such "artificial leaves" could remove significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere and produce energy-dense fuel efficiently.

The technology should be adaptable not only to large-scale use, like solar farms, but also to small-scale applications. In the future, it may prove useful on Mars, whose atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide, if the planet is also found to have water.

5.Balloon-based Solar Farms above the Clouds for Uninterrupted Power:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-51KqjXZ6A

A French-Japanese laboratory NextPV has proposed an option to mount solar panels on balloons to be placed above the clouds.

Reducing structural and installation costs, ensuring high conversion efficiency and providing nearly round-the-clock access to an abundant power supply would help prove that clean energy can cost less to produce than coal-fired electricity.

Though this idea looks great, many people criticize this idea in their social media discussions, by listing various reasons including the safety and the potential risk of these solar farm balloons hiding the sunlight to be reached the earth surface.

6.A 'mini ice age' is coming in 15 years? Solar activity predicted to fall 60% in 2030:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn7Rt_IaSgQ
new model that predicts the solar cycles more accurately than ever before has suggested that solar activity will drop by 60 percent between 2030 and 2040, which means in just 15 years’ time, Earth could sink into what researchers are calling a mini ice age.

7.A solar sailing spacecraft from The Planetary Society:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1OZUIhVjI

The LightSail is blasting off to space along with the X37B drone for a test flight on May 20th, but the project still needs a lot more money for its first major mission in 2016. So, the Planetary Society has started a Kickstarter campaign for getting money from crowdsourcing.

LightSail was originally conceptualized by Carl Sagan as a "solar sailer," a spacecraft that uses the sun's radiation for propulsion. The Planetary Society, is attempting to make its own version -- the current model is a CubeSat no bigger than a breadbox with four sails. If the team manages to raise enough money, LightSail will be sent to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in 2016.

Solar sails use the sun’s energy as a method of propulsion—flight by light. Light is made of packets of energy called photons. While photons have no mass, a photon traveling as a packet of light has energy and momentum.

8.Converting Carbon dioxide (CO2) into Formic acid using solar power:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyYIbOV97o8

Global warming is being caused by rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (Co2).Research to reduce this Global warming, usually involves three areas:
1. Developing alternative energy sources,
2.capturing and storing greenhouse gases, and
3. repurposing excess greenhouse gases.

By addressing two of these 3 things, researchers at Princeton University and researchers at a New Jersey start-up company "Liquid Light", came up with an efficient method for harnessing sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into a potential alternative fuel known as formic acid.

The transformation from carbon dioxide and water to formic acid was powered by a commercial solar panel that can be found at electric poles across New Jersey.

The process takes place inside an electrochemical cell, which consists of metal plates the size of rectangular lunch-boxes.

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The Search Engine Google is showing this Slide show Doodle globally for the Earth Day to spread the Earth Day Tips to its users.

Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on April 22. Worldwide, various events are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day events in more than 193 countries are now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network.

At an estimated 4.543 billion years of age, the Earth is still the only known object in the Universe known to harbor life. It’s also the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest of the four terrestrial planets.

Esther Afua Ocloo (April 18, 1919, Peki Dzake - February 8, 2002) was a Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending. She was born Esther Afua Nkulenu.

She was one of the founders of Women's World Banking in 1976, with Michaela Walsh and Ela Bhatt, and served as its first chair of trustees. She received the 1990 Africa Prize for Leadership.

April 18, 2017 the search engine Google shows a Doodle for 98th Birthday of Esther Afua Ocloo, in few countries. The Google Doodle shows Esther Afua Ocloo empowering the women of Ghana with the tools to improve their lives and communities.

As both an entrepreneur and an advocate for microlending, “Auntie Ocloo” worked tirelessly to help others like her succeed. Esther Afua Ocloo had only six shillings to her name — less than a dollar — when she made and then sold her first jar of marmalade as a teenager in the 1930s.

Esther was determined to expand her livelihood of making marmalade and orange juice, but she needed a loan to increase production, and credit was hard to come by for poor women. It took persistence and a supply contract to secure the money to start her company, Nkulenu Industries.

After traveling to England to learn the latest techniques in food processing, Esther returned home and shared those skills with other Ghanaian women. Perhaps more importantly, she taught them everything she knew about starting and running a business, which put more money in their pockets. She made such an impact that in 1975 she was invited to the first U.N. World Conference on Women.

Esther and other advisors knew that lending money to women could have a ripple effect, improving the prosperity and health of the women as well as their communities. But because they lacked collateral, low-income women were often ignored by banks. So in 1979, Esther helped found and became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Women’s World Banking, which provides millions of low-income women with the small loans needed to reach their financial goals.

Afua Nkulenu was born in the Volta Region to George Nkulenu, a blacksmith, and his wife Georgina, a potter and farmer

She was a founding member of religious groups such as the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Madina (a suburb of Accra) and the Unity Group of Practical Christianity (Ghana). She also assisted in forming a women’s group in the E.P Church known as Bible Class with the aim of studying the bible and home management.

She served on the synod committee of the E.P Church for 12 years.

The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in Canada and U.S for Mary Pickford’s 125th Birthday.

Gladys Louise Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American film actress, writer, director, and producer.

She was a co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.


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Facts about Mary Pickford:
She was known as "America’s sweetheart."She was the first star of American cinema.

Mary Pickford was born on April 8, 1892, in Toronto. She died on May 29, 1979, in Santa Monica, California.

In 1929, Pickford starred in her first talkie Coquette, which explored the dark side of a wealthy family.

She won an Academy Award for her work on the film. Her last film was 1933’s Secrets.

Pickford was also a savvy businesswoman and the first female movie mogul.

She served as a vice president at United Artists from 1935 until 1937

The American Film Institute named her as the 24th greatest female stars of all time.

She started acting very young and traveled across America with her mother and 2 siblings performing in low-budget local productions.

Pickford and Charlie Chaplin were by far cinemas biggest stars during the 1910s

Her handprints and footprints are displayed at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.

A new research shows graphene can filter common salts from water to make it safe to drink.The new findings could lead to affordable desalination technology.

Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making membranes capable of sieving common salts has been achieved.

New research demonstrates the real-world potential of providing clean drinking water for millions of people who struggle to access adequate clean water sources.

The new findings from a group of scientists at The University of Manchester were published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. Previously graphene-oxide membranes have shown exciting potential for gas separation and water filtration.

Graphene-oxide membranes developed at the National Graphene Institute have already demonstrated the potential of filtering out small nanoparticles, organic molecules, and even large salts. Until now, however, they couldn’t be used for sieving common salts used in desalination technologies, which require even smaller sieves.

Previous research at The University of Manchester found that if immersed in water, graphene-oxide membranes become slightly swollen and smaller salts flow through the membrane along with water, but larger ions or molecules are blocked.

The Manchester-based group have now further developed these graphene membranes and found a strategy to avoid the swelling of the membrane when exposed to water. The pore size in the membrane can be precisely controlled which can sieve common salts out of salty water and make it safe to drink.

As the effects of climate change continue to reduce modern city’s water supplies, wealthy modern countries are also investing in desalination technologies. Following the severe floods in California major wealthy cities are also looking increasingly to alternative water solutions.

By 2025 the UN expects that 14% of the world’s population will encounter water scarcity. This technology has the potential to revolutionise water filtration across the world, in particular in countries which cannot afford large scale desalination plants.

It is hoped that graphene-oxide membrane systems can be built on smaller scales making this technology accessible to countries which do not have the financial infrastructure to fund large plants without compromising the yield of fresh water produced.

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Today Google celebrate 434th Anniversary of the Introduction of the Gregorian Calendar