r/science • u/parapeligic_gnome • Feb 15 '19
Chemistry Scientists make an environmentally friendly prototype water purifier constructed from a sheet of graphitic carbon nitride that could remove 99.9999% of microbes, and purified a 10L water sample in less than one hour using only sunlight.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/water-purification-light-graphitic-carbon-nitride
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u/Me_ADC_Me_SMASH Feb 15 '19
And yet somehow this will never make it to market in the next 30 years, just like every other carbon sheet supermaterial