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Protein nanofibrils for next generation sustainable water purification
Water scarcity is rapidly spreading across the planet, threatening the population across the five continents and calling for global sustainable solutions. Water reclamation is the most ecological approach for supplying clean drinking water. However, current water purification technologies are seldom...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8166862/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34059677 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23388-2 |
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author | Peydayesh, Mohammad Mezzenga, Raffaele |
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description | Water scarcity is rapidly spreading across the planet, threatening the population across the five continents and calling for global sustainable solutions. Water reclamation is the most ecological approach for supplying clean drinking water. However, current water purification technologies are seldom sustainable, due to high-energy consumption and negative environmental footprint. Here, we review the cutting-edge technologies based on protein nanofibrils as water purification agents and we highlight the benefits of this green, efficient and affordable solution to alleviate the global water crisis. We discuss the different protein nanofibrils agents available and analyze them in terms of performance, range of applicability and sustainability. We underline the unique opportunity of designing protein nanofibrils for efficient water purification starting from food waste, as well as cattle, agricultural or dairy industry byproducts, allowing simultaneous environmental, economic and social benefits and we present a case analysis, including a detailed life cycle assessment, to establish their sustainable footprint against other common natural-based adsorbents, anticipating a bright future for this water purification approach. |
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spelling | pubmed-81668622021-06-17 Protein nanofibrils for next generation sustainable water purification Peydayesh, Mohammad Mezzenga, Raffaele Nat Commun Review Article Water scarcity is rapidly spreading across the planet, threatening the population across the five continents and calling for global sustainable solutions. Water reclamation is the most ecological approach for supplying clean drinking water. However, current water purification technologies are seldom sustainable, due to high-energy consumption and negative environmental footprint. Here, we review the cutting-edge technologies based on protein nanofibrils as water purification agents and we highlight the benefits of this green, efficient and affordable solution to alleviate the global water crisis. We discuss the different protein nanofibrils agents available and analyze them in terms of performance, range of applicability and sustainability. We underline the unique opportunity of designing protein nanofibrils for efficient water purification starting from food waste, as well as cattle, agricultural or dairy industry byproducts, allowing simultaneous environmental, economic and social benefits and we present a case analysis, including a detailed life cycle assessment, to establish their sustainable footprint against other common natural-based adsorbents, anticipating a bright future for this water purification approach. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8166862/ /pubmed/34059677 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23388-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Review Article Peydayesh, Mohammad Mezzenga, Raffaele Protein nanofibrils for next generation sustainable water purification |
title | Protein nanofibrils for next generation sustainable water purification |
title_full | Protein nanofibrils for next generation sustainable water purification |
title_fullStr | Protein nanofibrils for next generation sustainable water purification |
title_full_unstemmed | Protein nanofibrils for next generation sustainable water purification |
title_short | Protein nanofibrils for next generation sustainable water purification |
title_sort | protein nanofibrils for next generation sustainable water purification |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8166862/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34059677 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23388-2 |
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