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Water Filtration Using Plant Xylem

Effective point-of-use devices for providing safe drinking water are urgently needed to reduce the global burden of waterborne disease. Here we show that plant xylem from the sapwood of coniferous trees – a readily available, inexpensive, biodegradable, and disposable material – can remove bacteria...

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Autores principales: Boutilier, Michael S. H., Lee, Jongho, Chambers, Valerie, Venkatesh, Varsha, Karnik, Rohit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3935949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24587134
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089934