Simultaneous generation of residue-free reactive oxygen species and bacteria capture for efficient electrochemical water disinfection
Yong Liu, Lihao Wang, Qianhui Ma, Xingtao Xu, Xin Gao, Haiguang Zhu, Ting Feng, Xinyue Dou, Miharu Eguchi, Yusuke Yamauchi, Xun Yuan · 2024
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Description
Yong Liu and co-authors build an electrochemical water purifier that traps and kills bacteria in a 2024 paper. Safe drinking water needs disinfection without chemical leftovers. Silver has killed microbes for millennia, and atomically precise silver clusters could do it on demand.
Their electrodes carry clusters of exactly twenty-eight silver atoms. The clusters lure bacteria onto the surface, then kill them two ways: with reactive oxygen made on the spot by electrocatalysis, and by the silver's own antimicrobial action. Dead cells are released so the cycle repeats. The system wiped out over 99.99 percent of broad microbe types, ran five hours with little fade, and used very little energy. Tests on real water samples passed as well.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yong Liu, Lihao Wang, Qianhui Ma, Xingtao Xu, Xin Gao, Haiguang Zhu, Ting Feng, Xinyue Dou, Miharu Eguchi, Yusuke Yamauchi, Xun Yuan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |