Article: United States: Olive Oil Inspires Novel Nanotechnology Wastewater Cleanup Material.

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Researchers from the University of Naples in Italy and the University of Massachusetts in the U.S. have shown that a combination of aluminum oxide nanoparticles and polymerin, a biomaterial that can be recovered from olive oil mill wastewaters, can potentially be used to adsorb phenanthrene, a hazardous compound derived from the combustion of carbon fuels, from polluted waters. The article says that the Italian researchers first recovered polymerin from olive oil mill wastewater, which is itself has considerable polluting properties, in a 2002 study. The researchers found that polymerin is naturally rich in metal cations and could potentially be ...

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