A hydrophobic oil absorbing marshmallow

via +Cheryl Hur­kett is this video demon­strat­ing a marshmallow-like mac­ro­por­ous gel that could be used for sep­ar­at­ing oil and water. Like the accom­pa­ny­ing press release says, this is obvi­ously use­ful for mar­ine oil spills, but there are many more applications.

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/01/marshmallow-aerogel-mops-oil

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3 Comments

  1. Mary Mactavish

    So this would absorb all the milk fat out of my hot cocoa?

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  2. Alun Salt

    It removes organic com­pounds, so my guess is it’ll remove the fat and the cocoa.

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  3. Cliff Bramlett

    That is cool!

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