Kombucha Cultures Could Be the Key to Better Water Filters | WIRED 19/5/22, 11(47 PM

JENNIFER OUELLETTE, ARS TECHNICA S CI EN CE JAN 29, 2022 9:00 AM

Kombucha Cultures Could

Be the Key to Better Water
Filters
A study found that filtration membranes formed from SCOBYs
are more e!ective at preventing bacterial growth than
commercial equivalents.

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tea that's all the rage these days among

T H E R E F R E S H I N G KO M B U C H A

certain global demographics might also hold the key to affordable,

environmentally sustainable living membranes for water filtration,
according to a recent paper published in the American Chemical Society
journal ACS ES&T Water. Experiments by researchers at Montana
Technological University (MTU) and Arizona State University (ASU)
showed that membranes grown from kombucha cultures were better at
preventing the formation of biofilms—a significant challenge in water
filtration—than current commercial membranes.

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