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August 18, 2015

Eliminating water-borne bacteria with pages from The Drinkable Book
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 18, 2015
Human consumption of bacterially contaminated water causes millions of deaths each year throughout the world--primarily among children. While studying the material properties of paper as a graduate student, Theresa Dankovich, Ph.D., discovered and developed an inexpensive, simple and easily transportable nanotechnology-based method to purify drinking water. She calls it The Drinkable BookTM, and each page is impregnated with bacteria-killing metal nanoparticles. Dankovich will explain her technolo ... read more

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