Using Ag nanoclusters to achieve mutually reinforcing water desalination and sterilization
Qianhui Ma, Lingyu Zhang, Bo Xiao, Zhong Hua, Xinglong Luan, Jianhui Xia, Jiahui Li, Ting Feng, Yong Liu, Xun Yuan · 2026
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Description
Qianhui Ma and co-authors built a water cleaner in a 2026 study that desalts and disinfects at once. Clean water needs both salt out and germs dead, yet the two steps often fight each other in one device. The team sought a single system where each job boosts the other.
Their device stores salt ions on an electrode made of silver clusters set in carbon fibers. The same surface kills germs with strong effect, clearing more than four logs of them in tests. Salt uptake hit a high mark per gram of material. A two-in-one unit like this could serve places that lack big water plants.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Qianhui Ma, Lingyu Zhang, Bo Xiao, Zhong Hua, Xinglong Luan, Jianhui Xia, Jiahui Li, Ting Feng, Yong Liu, Xun Yuan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 69 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |