lunes, 10 de marzo de 2014

Pine tree’s tissue for moving sap holds promise as water filter

Rohit Karnik has focused on developing new water filtration technologies for six years, often drawing on detailed physical knowledge of how fluids behave at the smallest scales.

At a conference designed to bring together researchers from different disciplines, he found himself transfixed by a scientist’s description of how sap flows through plants.

Karnik and a team that includes a high school teacher and a high school student reported the details last month in the journal PLoS ONE of a promising next-generation water filter that might be effective, cheap, and biodegradable. The technology? A branch from a pine tree stripped of its bark.

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