When oil spills occur, a very expensive and messy clean-up effort that involves difficult human labor is typically deployed. Now researchers in California have developed a helpful and low-cost robotic film that may one day aid greatly in this endeavor as a more sustainable solution.
Researchers at the University of California Riverside (UCR) developed the film, powered by light and fueled by water, that not only could be deployed on the ocean to clean up oil spills, but also remove contaminants from drinking water.
