<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/91eda12f-6616-4dd2-8f31-1b9cca9aae92/4808E15D-FCB8-475E-8CB2-5F9F55A23BF4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17171-threeinone-sponge-to-clean-the-environment.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=tech" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17171-threeinone-sponge-to-clean-the-environment.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=tech" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17171-threeinone-sponge-to-clean-the-environment.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=tech"><H1> Three-in-one sponge to clean the environment </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17171-threeinone-sponge-to-clean-the-environment.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=tech"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> 17:50 20 May 2009 by <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/search?rbauthors=Colin+Barras" linkindex="31"><B>Colin Barras</B></A> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17171-threeinone-sponge-to-clean-the-environment.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=tech"><P class="infuse">Materials that can clean up the environment and improve efficiency of industrial processes are always in demand. So prospects are promising for a new material that can do this in three ways: it strips sulphur from fuel, removes mercury from polluted water, and separates gases in industrial processes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17171-threeinone-sponge-to-clean-the-environment.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=tech"><P class="infuse">The material is an <A target="ns" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel" linkindex="32">aerogel</A> – a gel from which the liquid component has been removed to leave gas-filled voids. Aerogels have the lowest density of any known solid-state material.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17171-threeinone-sponge-to-clean-the-environment.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=tech"><P class="infuse">While typically aerogels are composed of silicon or aluminium oxides, <A target="ns" href="http://chemgroups.northwestern.edu/kanatzidis/kanatzidis.html" linkindex="33">Mercouri Kanatzidis</A>'s team at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12360-novel-gel-soaks-up-heavy-metal-pollution.html" linkindex="34">has been experimenting with "chalcogels"</A>. 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