Direct Oxidative Transfer Process Contributes to Water Purification

A research team led by professor Yu Hanqing from the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with professor Menachem Elimelech from Yale University, recently developed a new water decontamination technology, the direct oxidative transfer process (DOTP). The study was published in Nature Communications. Previous investigations showed that the removal of organic pollutants from water depends on an advanced oxidation process (AOP), which requires external energy or chemical input. However, it was discovered that the electron equivalent released by the pollutants was much higher than the oxidant-consumed electron equivalent, which could not be explained