A new absorbent membrane from Australia

Most Popular Getty By Jay Bennett Dec 1, 2015 Researchers at Deakin University in Australia have cause an incredibly absorbent sea sponge bodily that could be used to dexterous tomorrow anoint let.

If anything preference the 2010 Deep water Horizon explosion and resulting anoint spill occur again, this modern super sponge could help debar major impair and preserve billions of dollars.

"Oil splinter from rubbish and other vehicles can complete freeways for an undivided age, again amounting to comprehensive economic losings. The new material was primarily synthesized as an absorbent powder. With the help of researchers from Drexel University and the Missouri University of Science and Technology, this boron nit ride, which researchers call "white graphite," was apart into atomically thin sheets and then layered to compel a bath sponge-copy absorbent membrane.

"Everyone remind the Gulf Coast injure, but here in Australia are a regular problem, and not just in our waters," says Ying "Ian" Chen of Deakin University, an author of the investigate newspaper particularization the findings in Nature Communications.

This video shows some more about this sponge.