Researchers discover efficient and sustainable way to filter salt and metal ions from water

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Researchers discover efficient and sustainable way to filter salt and metal ions from water
February 9, 2018, Monash University


With two billion people worldwide lacking access to clean and safe drinking water, joint research by Monash University, CSIRO and the University of Texas at Austin published today in Sciences Advances may offer a breakthrough new solution.

It all comes down to metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), an amazing next generation material that have the largest internal surface area of any known substance. The sponge like crystals can be used to capture, store and release chemical compounds. In this case, the salt and ions in sea water.

https://phys.org/news/2018-02-efficient-sustainable-filter-salt-metal.html

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[GtHawk]

I was reading along until I hit this sentence
Building on the growing scientific understanding of MOFs, CSIRO's Dr Anita Hill said the research offers another potential real-world use for the next-generation material.
How can I take anything from Anita Hill seriously?
Okay, sorry, the article is very interesting and I wonder just how well they can tune the membrane for specific metals? It would be of tremendous value in cleaning up water polluted by mining as well as recovering very expensive metals. Maybe the old gold from seawater scam will actually come true.