Still, sparkling… or gold filtered?

An international research team with representatives from Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) and ITMO University, among others, found that the use of gold-covered titanium dioxide nanoparticles in desalination plants can dramatically help speed up the process of evaporation — a technique employed when producing drinking water from seawater.

The nanoparticles absorb energy from the sun and turn it into heat, thus speeding the evaporation process. The particles can even help track hazardous molecules and compounds in the water.

Learn more at News Medical.