This Ocean Cleanup System Aims To Collect 50 Tons Of Plastic. But Then What?
HuffPost – If the much-hyped system is a success, the tricky question is how to deal with all the plastic waste it will bring back.
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These Cultural Treasures Are Made of Plastic. Now They’re Falling Apart.
New York Times – Museum conservators are racing to figure out how to preserve modern artworks and historical objects that are disintegrating.
Designing the Death of a Plastic
New York Times – Decades ago, synthetic polymers became popular because they were cheap and durable. Now, scientists are creating material that self-destructs or breaks down for reuse on command.
Membrane knocks out antibiotic-resistant bacteria
C&EN – Combining UV disinfection with a photocatalytic membrane helps to reduce the bacteria and their genes in wastewater.
Mining archived data for emerging pollutants
C&EN – Data sharing project lays groundwork for contaminant “early warning network.”
Using nature’s motors to deliver drugs
C&EN – Bacteria and sperm have natural advantages over synthetic nanomotors when navigating the body’s byways.
New Species of Sponges Found on the Pacific Seafloor
New York Times – The tiny creatures live on rock nodules containing metals like iron, cobalt and copper that are targeted for deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.
The architecture of structured DNA
Nature – Researchers are exploiting the structural properties of DNA to build nanoscale models for use in medicine and materials science.
Thirsty MOF sucks more water from air
C&EN – A high-capacity, water-adsorbent metal-organic framework could help improve the performance of both water capture and adsorption cooling devices.
Carbon capture gets a boost from aromatic rings
C&EN – Linking phenyls to the amines used to scrub CO2 from power plant emissions could make process more efficient.