Decontamination of Organic Pollutants from Aqueous Media Using Polymer-Free Bioinspired Materials

The occurrence of organic pollutants into water resources, including pharmaceutics, personal care products, pesticides, and/or hormones, is a major issue for all biological species. The impacts of these contaminants on both human beings and the environment are not yet fully understood, and the water pollution has raised a major public concern for many worldwide health authorities. In this letter, we propose a new strategy allowing the decontamination of organic pollutants based on polymer-free bionspired materials. A simple incubation of contaminated samples with nucleolipids allows a quantitative decontamination.