{"id":11060,"date":"2012-02-22T09:51:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2012-02-22T09:51:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T13:51:21","slug":"wsu-researcher-creates-%e2%80%98nano-brushes%e2%80%99-that-remove-contaminants-from-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/02\/22\/wsu-researcher-creates-%e2%80%98nano-brushes%e2%80%99-that-remove-contaminants-from-water\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU researcher creates \u2018nano brushes\u2019 that remove contaminants from water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt))<\/p>\n<p>FAIRBORN \u2014 A Wright State University researcher believes she may have found a tiny solution to an increasingly big problem.<\/p>\n<p>With  the help of students and colleagues, Sharmila Mukhopadhyay, director of  Wright State\u2019s Center for Nano-Scale Multifunctional Materials, has  developed what the university calls \u201cnear molecular-sized nano brushes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The  brushes are structures made up of thousands of what the university  calls \u201ctiny, jellyfish-like strands.\u201d Coat the bristles with the right  materials, and the bristles can cleanse water of dangerous pollutants,  killing bacteria and destroying harmful chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middletownjournal.com\/news\/middletown-business-news\/wsu-researcher-creates-nano-brushes-that-remove-contaminants-from-water-1332141.html\">MiddletownJournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt)) FAIRBORN \u2014 A Wright State University researcher believes she may have found a tiny solution to an increasingly big problem. With the help of students and colleagues, Sharmila Mukhopadhyay, director of Wright State\u2019s Center for Nano-Scale Multifunctional Materials, has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/02\/22\/wsu-researcher-creates-%e2%80%98nano-brushes%e2%80%99-that-remove-contaminants-from-water\/\" 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-11060","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\/11060","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=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11061,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions\/11061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}