Financial Gazette
  • Science
  • Global

Floating biodegradable beads remove oil in 60 minutes and stay easy to recover

  • April 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM
  • 9 views
Floating biodegradable beads remove oil in 60 minutes and stay easy to recover
Floatable beads made from chitosan and cellulose acetate and enhanced with bentonite have been engineered to effectively clean oil from water. The beads showed good oil adsorption capacity while remaining easy to collect from the water surface.

Originally published at Phys.org

Share: