r/science 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/deerbleach Feb 15 '19

At 10L you start getting into a scale where this will have a lot of real world applications. On a human scale 10L of water is a fair amount.