News tagged with trichloroethene
Tracking the 'evolution' of nanoparticles as they decontaminate groundwater
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers use advanced imaging techniques to examine bimetallic materials that have remediated more than 50 toxic waste sites.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Scientists offer new theory for largest known mass extinction
The largest mass extinction in the history of the earth could have been triggered off by giant salt lakes, whose emissions of halogenated gases changed the atmospheric composition so dramatically that vegetation ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Researchers shed new light on catalyzed reactions
Rice University scientists on the hunt for a better way to clean up the stubborn pollutant TCE have created a method that lets them watch molecules break down on the surface of a catalyst as individual chemical bonds are ...
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Nanoparticles assemble by millions to encase oil drops
In a development that could lead to new technologies for cleaning up oil spills and polluted groundwater, scientists at Rice University have shown how tiny, stick-shaped particles of metal and carbon can trap oil droplets ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 29, 2008 |
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Nature's helpers: Using microorganisms to remove TCE from water
In 2002, Bruce Rittmann, PhD, director of the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Environmental Biotechnology, received a patent for an innovative way to use nature to lend society a hand. He invented a treatment ...
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Bacteria That Degrade PCBs Identified
Researchers have identified a group of bacteria that can detoxify a common type of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which have contaminated more than 250 U.S. sites, including river and lake sediments.
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Mar 28, 2007 |
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Tiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem
New research from Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology finds that nanoparticles of gold and palladium are the most effective catalysts yet identified for remediation of one of the nation's ...
Feb 23, 2005 |
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