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IIT Guwahati uses superhydrophobic cotton to remove oil-spill
November 6 , 2017
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- Team of researchers from IIT Guwahati has developed a Super hydrophobic cotton i.e., extremely water repelling medical cotton.
- It removed up to 95% of oil-spill of different densities
- The efficiency of absorption is very high i.e., one gram of the super hydrophobic cotton absorbs 20 grams of either heavy or light oils.
- The absorbed oil can be recovered through physical compression.
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