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Mercury Removal: A Nanoselenium Sponge for Instantaneous Mercury Removal to Undetectable Levels (Adv. Funct. Mater. 17/2017)
Author(s) -
Ahmed Snober,
Brockgreitens John,
Xu Ke,
Abbas Abdennour
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201770102
Subject(s) - mercury (programming language) , sponge , materials science , environmental chemistry , nanotechnology , chemistry , botany , computer science , biology , programming language
A nanoselenium sponge is capable of removing aqueous mercury to undetectable levels within a few seconds, as demonstrated by Abdennour Abbas and co‐workers in article number 1606572 . The sponge does not retain water nutrients and meets the regulatory requirements for nonhazardous waste disposal. The illustration depicts a scanning electron microscope image of the sponge and the antimicrobial properties of the sponge.