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Project Metadata Element | Details |
Project Title | Sensing and Remediation of Nitrates using Copper and Bimetallic Copper Nanoparticles |
Research Area | Water |
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Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | Carmel Breslin |
Lead Institution or Organisation | Maynooth University (NUIM) |
Lead Country | Ireland |
Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 53.38302, -6.60025 |
Lead Funding Entity | Environmental Protection Agency |
Approximate Project Start Date | 02/10/2006 |
Approximate Project Finishing Date | 17/12/2012 |
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Project Keywords | Drinking water; Sensors; Nitrates; Health |
Project Abstract | Nitrates and other nitrogen-containing compounds are harmful to the environment and pose a particular risk when they become concentrated in drinking water. Consequently there is an ever-increasing interest in developing reliable fast and simple sensors to detect low concentrations of nitrate and in developing new environmental technologies to effectively remove nitrates and convert them into harmless products. In this project novel copper and bimetallic copper nanoparticles will be synthesised and used in the sensing and remediation of nitrates with the aim of converting the nitrates into nitrogen which is an environmentally desirable end product making up 78% of the air. |