New York: A material for removing salt from seawater has been found by Engineers with low cost successfully.
The material, Nanopores which is formed with a nanometre-thick sheet of molybdenum disulfide with small holes, particularly designed for allowing a high volume of water through to it, but salt and other pollute out, this is the desalination process.
Professor Narayana Aluru who is study leader from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said that we have huge water on our planet, but very little is used for potable, if we find the essential way for purifying sea water in low price then we can overcome this water crisis.
They used different types of thin film membranes for finding the MoS2 to show the greatest ability, at last they succeed and up to 70% more water has been filtered than graphene membranes.
“For getting efficient desalination with the use of finding materials is a big issue, this work will be useful for next generation materials and now this is the foundation for them” added by Aluru.
Desalination technologies which are mainly obtainable depending on reverse osmosis process. This process is used to push seawater through a thin plastic membrane for making pure water. The membrane having small enough holes in it is not let or dirt through, but it is large enough to let water through. Finally, it is good at filtering but gives only little trickle of fresh water.
Aluru added that reverse osmosis process is a powerful and costly process and lot of power is needed to do this process and it is not that much efficient and sometimes it can fail. Due to this reason we should make it cheap and make the membranes more ability so that it does not fail often.