researchers in Arizona and New Jersey are reporting that aerogels, A super featherweight solid sometimes called "banned smoke, May serve as the ultimate sponge for capturing oil from wastewater and effectively soaking up the environmental oil spills.In the recent study, Robert Pfeffer and colleagues point out that environmentally friendly challenges of oil contamination go beyond widely publicized maritime oil spills like the Exxon Valdez incident.Experts estimate that many year people dump more than 200 million gallons of used oil into sewers, water ways, And gardens, contributing to polluted wastewater that is difficult to treat. Although there are numerous sorbent materials for removing used oil, Such as started carbon, usually costly and inefficient. Hydrophobic silica aerogels are highly porous and proof material, And seemed like a superior oil sponge.The exceptional packed a batch of tiny aerogel beads into a vertical column and exposed them to flowing water containing soybean oil to simulate the filtration process at a wastewater treatment plant.

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