{"id":221787,"date":"2023-01-10T19:43:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=221787"},"modified":"2023-01-10T19:43:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:13:37","slug":"ivofm-iiser-punes-new-material-removes-pollutants-from-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ivofm-iiser-punes-new-material-removes-pollutants-from-water\/","title":{"rendered":"iVOFm: IISER Pune\u2019s new material removes pollutants from water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>IISER Pune\u2019s new material removes pollutants from water<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 9th January 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune has developed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a<\/span> <b>Viologen-unit grafted organic-framework (iVOFm)<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to clean polluted water.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is iVOFm?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">iVOFm is a unique molecular sponge-like material to clean polluted water by soaking up the contaminants in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Method used:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> iVOFm employs an amalgamation of electrostatics-driven ion exchange combined with nanometer-sized macropores and specific binding sites for the targeted pollutants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The inherent cationic nature of iVOFm and macroporosity allows fast diffusion of pollutants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Unlike normal sorbent materials, this material is found to be very selective toward toxic pollutants. It can be used several times just like a bath sponge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance of this technique:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> When tested for a variety of water pollutants, it demonstrated incredibly quick capture of all the pollutants\u2014both organic and inorganic\u2014removal rates of over 93% in just 30 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Ion exchange technique?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ion Exchange (IX) is a water purification technique in which the water is passed through one or more beds of ion-exchange beads where impurity ions in water are taken up on the beads and replaced by hydrogen and hydroxyl ions, purifying the water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIISER Pune\u2019s new material removes pollutants from water\u201d published in The Hindu on 9th January 2023 What is the News? Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune has developed a Viologen-unit grafted organic-framework (iVOFm) to clean polluted water. What is iVOFm? iVOFm is a unique&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ivofm-iiser-punes-new-material-removes-pollutants-from-water\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iVOFm: IISER Pune\u2019s new material removes pollutants from water<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-221787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}