Biodegradable Chemical Could be Greener Option for Oil Spill Cleanup (1 of 1) (VIDEO)

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Oil herding experiment at the lab scale mimicking an oil spill scenario. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 26, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Gupta at The City College of the City University of New York in New York, NY, and colleagues was titled, 'Sacrificial amphiphiles: Eco-friendly chemical herders as oil spill mitigation chemicals.'

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[Credit: Gupta <i>et al.</i> Sci. Adv. 2015;1:e1400265]

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