Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Solar-powered nanofilters pump in antibiotics to clean contaminated water

Published: Oct. 22, 2022, 6:44 p.m.

Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers twice as efficiently as the best existing technology. Their report appears in ACS’ journal NanoLetters.