UV rays are capable of beginning to kill bacteria in as little as six hours but the process can sometimes take up to two days.<\/p>\n
A team of researchers\u00a0at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory<\/a> and Stanford University’s Institute for Materials and Energy Science<\/a> developed a small device that can expedite this process.<\/p>\n The device\u00a0works to\u00a0disinfect water by utilizing UV rays, with additional help from the visible part of the solar spectrum.<\/p>\n In a test, the device which is smaller than a postage stamp and comprised of glass and invisible layers of molybdenum disulfide, was able to kill 99.99 percent of bacteria after 20 minutes of use in 25 milliliters of water.]<\/p>\n How is the device capable of performing this well?<\/p>\n Well, when hit with visible light, the tiny device transforms into a photocatalyst that produces hydrogen peroxide, which is a disinfectant.<\/p>\n While the results are promising, the researchers are quick to point out that it has only been tested with lab-produced E. coli and lactic acid bacteria at this time.<\/p>\n Once it shows it can demolish chemicals or viruses effectively, we’ll be in business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UV rays are capable of beginning to kill bacteria in as little as six hours but the process can sometimes take up to two days. A team of researchers\u00a0at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University’s Institute for Materials and Energy Science developed a small device that can expedite this process. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,59],"tags":[622,624,623],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}