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Researchers from Monash University in Australia have developed a new light-responsive technology that can convert seawater into clean drinking water in less than 30 minutes.
According to the British newspaper Daily Mail, the researchers used an organic mineral frame of grid-like crystals for desalination that separates the hollow frame of dissolved pores inside brackish water or even salty sea water in a process known as molecular screening.
The researchers explained that, under dark conditions, the tire absorbs salts and other impurities from the water within 30 minutes, after which the same MOFs are regenerated and reused within four minutes only by using sunlight to remove the absorbed salts.
They pointed out that the new technology could generate 139.5 liters of clean water per kilogram of MOF per day.
Professor Hauteng Wong said, "Sunlight is the most abundant and renewable source of energy on earth," explaining that the development of the new desalination process is based on the use of sunlight for renewal as it is a sustainable and environmentally friendly source of energy.
It is noteworthy that desalination is the process of converting saline or salty water that is not potable to drinking water that has been used to address the growing shortage of potable water around the world.