> The team collected the uranium-loaded rods with a magnet and stripped off the uranium, allowing the tiny robots to be recycled.
So it appears as if these MOFs capture the uranium and then can be collected.
From the title I expected the micro robots to actually get rid of the material. We still need a way to process the collected uranium and find a way to extract the MOFs from groundwater in case of leakage.
10 comments
[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 39.9 ms ] threadAlways amazes me how we're able to create things this small/thin.
> In simulated radioactive wastewater, the microrobots removed 96% of the uranium in an hour
That's a very respectable number, I'm curious how they simulated waste water and what the differences would be with real waste water.
> The team collected the uranium-loaded rods with a magnet and stripped off the uranium, allowing the tiny robots to be recycled.
And they're reusable? Bravo!
https://ghostintheshell.fandom.com/wiki/Japanese_Miracle
So it appears as if these MOFs capture the uranium and then can be collected.
From the title I expected the micro robots to actually get rid of the material. We still need a way to process the collected uranium and find a way to extract the MOFs from groundwater in case of leakage.
I wonder how much H₂O₂ is required per liter of H₂O?
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b04960#
Edit: this account is a bot that just submits from this site: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=techben
https://humanbioscience.org/2019/11/swarms-of-microrobots-cl...
I dont know why this happened, but the original link is still alive