Nanodiamond
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Posted on 06/26/2012 2:40:40 PM PDT by Red Badger
Nanodiamonds, pieces of carbon less than ten-thousandths the diameter of a human hair, have been found to help loosen crystallized fat from surfaces in a project led by research chemists at the University of Warwick that transforms the ability of washing powders to shift dirt in eco friendly low temperature laundry cycles.
These new findings tackle a problem that forces consumers to wash some of their laundry at between 60 and 90 degrees centigrade more than 80 times a year. Even with modern biological washing powders, some fats and dirt cannot be removed at the lower temperatures many prefer to use for their weekly wash.
A desire to reduce the significant energy burden of regular high temperature washes, and understand the behaviour of these new materials, brought University of Warwick scientists and colleagues at Aston University together in a project funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and P&G plc.
This "Cold Water Cleaning Initiative" funded a group of chemists, physicists and engineers led by Dr Andrew Marsh in the University of Warwick's Department of Chemistry to explore how new forms of carbon might work together with detergents in everyday household products.
Dr Andrew Marsh said:
"We found that the 5 nanometre diamonds changed the way detergents behaved at 25 degrees centigrade, doubling the amount of fat removed when using one particular commercial detergent molecule. Even at temperatures as low as 15 degrees centigrade, otherwise hard-to-remove fat could be solubilised from a test surface. The physical and chemical insight already gained paves the way for future research to explore how this unique behaviour might be exploited in other ways."
The research is published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
More information: Nanodiamond Promotes Surfactant-Mediated Triglyceride Removal from a Hydrophobic Surface at or below Room Temperature Xianjin Cui, Xianping Liu, Andrew S. Tatton, Steven P. Brown, Haitao Ye, and Andrew Marsh ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2012, doi:10.1021/am300560z
Journal reference: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces search and more info website
Nanodiamond
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“What are you complaining about, honey? You always said you wanted diamonds, lots of diamonds...”
Nanodiamonds, pieces of carbon less than ten-thousandths the diameter of a human hair, have been found to help loosen crystallized fat from surfaces...
Or you can use hot water for your wash like almost every civilized household has done for the past 100 years.
Sheesh, this crap sounds so expensive that it will lead to disposable clothes.
They are also putting nanodiamonds in gun oil.
The concept is that the little round diamonds embed themselves in the microscopic troughs in the metal surface and make for a smoother lubricant.
According to gun-tests the product works but only after enough wear has take place to allow the diamonds to fit in the metal.
A brand new tight fitting weapon may not be the best place to use the oil.
Ten or fifteen years down the line, these same guys will be worrying about nanodiamond pollution in our lakes and streams.
Just add a pinch of phosphates to your wash powder and your clothes will be clean at low temps like they used to be (before phosphates were removed from cleaning products).
But phosphates are "bad" for the environment, and hot water is "bad" for the environment, so both options are off the table. The classic liberal solution to this problem is here: use diamonds instead, even if it costs extra.
But...but..but... nanodiamonds will hurt little horny toads!!
I’ll go with ‘Skin Cancer and Lung Disease’ for 400...
Which should be named "Obama" after their prices and successes.
Which should be named "Obama" after their prices and successes.
But, but...I thought “carbon” was bad for the environment. I’ll keep using phosphates and hot water, thanks. After working for years in a hospital where I had to pick up my scrubs washed in the hospital laundry because water / dryer temperatures at home were too low, F ‘em.
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