Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) Professor Park Chi-Young's team has successfully developed an atypical porous polymer material that can completely remove phenolic organic contaminants in water at ultra-high speeds.
The porous material developed can efficiently remove not only microplastics in water but also very small-sized volatile organic compounds (VOCs) based on photothermal effect. At the same time, it is expected to be utilized as a high-efficiency adsorption material that can be commercialized in the future as it has cost competitiveness based on raw materials and enables a solar-based water purification process.
Water pollution caused by the rapid development of the
