Monash University Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:30:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Toxins Removed from Water by New Metal-Organic Framework https://www.greenoptimistic.com/metal-organic-framework-water-filter-20130124/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/metal-organic-framework-water-filter-20130124/#respond Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:30:44 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31937 A new Metal Organic Framework (MOF) may have the ability to filter environmental toxins out of water, thanks to a team of scientists at Monash University at CSIRO who developed it. MOFs are comprised of clusters of atoms that are connected by organic molecules. MOFs have identically sized pores, making it very easy to capture and […]

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