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IIT Guwahati uses superhydrophobic cotton to remove oil-spill

November 6 , 2017 2574 days 1094 0
  • 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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