Eliminating Water-Borne Bacteria with Pages From the Drinkable Book(tm) Could Save Lives
Sunday, August 16, 2015 - 04:20
in Health & Medicine
Human consumption of bacterially contaminated water causes millions of deaths each year throughout the world--primarily among children. A researcher at the 250th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society today will discuss an inexpensive, simple and easily transportable nanotechnology-based method to purify drinking water. She calls it The Drinkable BookTM, and each page is impregnated with bacteria-killing metal nanoparticles.