{"id":10243,"date":"2012-01-17T10:04:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=10243"},"modified":"2012-01-17T10:04:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:04:34","slug":"researchers-working-on-watershed-moment-in-water-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/17\/researchers-working-on-watershed-moment-in-water-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers working on watershed moment in water pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt))<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: ARIAL,SANS SERIF;color: #000000;font-size: x-small\">FAIRBORN \u2014 Polluted streams, rivers, lakes and municipal water may soon be getting the Wright State treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Sharmila Mukhopadhyay and her researchers are developing near molecular-sized \u201cnano-brushes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These  fuzzy structures have bristles made up of thousands of tiny,  jellyfish-like strands. The increased surface area of the bristles, with  proper coatings, allows them to behave like powerful cleaners that kill  bacteria and destroy contaminants that pollute water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt  absolutely should work,\u201d said Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., director of Wright  State\u2019s Center for Nano-Scale Multifunctional Materials. \u201cI\u2019m pretty  excited about this because the potential, I know, is huge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: ARIAL,SANS SERIF;color: #000000;font-size: x-small\">Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairborndailyherald.com\/main.asp?ArticleID=174869&amp;SectionID=138&amp;SubSectionID=580&amp;TM=26682.83\">FairbornDailyHerald.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt)) FAIRBORN \u2014 Polluted streams, rivers, lakes and municipal water may soon be getting the Wright State treatment. Sharmila Mukhopadhyay and her researchers are developing near molecular-sized \u201cnano-brushes.\u201d These fuzzy structures have bristles made up of thousands of tiny, jellyfish-like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/17\/researchers-working-on-watershed-moment-in-water-pollution\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10245,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243\/revisions\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}