Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways—researchers develop hollow sphere silk particles to test adsorption at Salimpour Site.

Dr. Salimpour Site |Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove another.

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Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways—researchers develop hollow sphere silk particles to test adsorption

Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways—researchers develop hollow sphere silk particles to test adsorption

Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove another.