The Community of Madrid is studying new materials capable of degrading microplastics present in water, through research led by the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (Imdea).
As reported this Saturday by the Madrid Executive, the team of researchers has proven that the platforms composed of porous materials -the metal-organic networks called MOFs-, combined with enzymes, promote the degradation that eliminates these contaminating elements present in the water.
For the first time, it has been shown that these networks “They have even been able to erode the surface of a bottle of plastic water, which practically does not degrade after being discarded.
Through the evaluation of 10 prototypesresearchers from the Institute’s Advanced Porous Materials Unit managed to immobilize the enzyme ‘candida rugosa lipase’ on the networks, responsible for the degradation of a plastic product.
This element reached percentages of 37% after 24 hours of contact and was able to erode the surface of real plastics “thus demonstrating its effectiveness and stability.”
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