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No microplastic particle is safe from bounty-hunting "microcleaners" | Microcleaners use soft dendritic colloids to collect submerged microplastic particles, then bring them to the surface
Wouldn't it be great if there were a way of chasing down waterborne microplastic particles and catching them for removal, as opposed to just passively filtering them out of water bodies? Well, experimental new "microcleaners" can reportedly do that very thing.
Wouldn't it be great if there were a way of chasing down waterborne microplastic particles and catching them for removal, as opposed to just passively filtering them out of water bodies? Developed by Prof. Orlin Velev and colleagues at North Carolina State University, they take the form of tiny pellets which are in turn composed of multiple particles known as soft dendritic colloids. Each microplastic-grabbing soft dendritic colloid particle sports a network of sticky armsHaeleen Hong, NC State University
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