{"id":12557,"date":"2011-11-12T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T13:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/?p=12557"},"modified":"2011-11-12T08:45:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T13:45:58","slug":"smog-eating-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/12\/smog-eating-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Smog-eating material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of pilot projects around the world have seen the material used in, for example, concrete &#8211; hence the Jubilee Church in Rome. In Japan, Mitsubishi markets a brand of titanium dioxide-treated paving stones and Toto makes coated ceramic tiles.<\/p>\n<p>The material hit the news again this week when the aluminium firm Alcoa announced its new product Ecoclean, a titanium dioxide coating on aluminium panels for cladding buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The firm claims that 1,000 square metres of the coated panels eat up the equivalent NOx output of four cars.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What we see, especially in Europe, is more and more legislation&#8230; about the air quality in cities, and I think that Ecoclean is a product that can really help mitigate the effects of emitters such as cars by its air-cleansing characteristics,&quot; Alcoa spokesman Jasper Van Zon told BBC News.<\/p>\n<p>v\u00eda <a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-15694973'>BBC News &#8211; &#8216;Smog-eating&#8217; material breaking into the big time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of pilot projects around the world have seen the material used in, for example, concrete &#8211; hence the Jubilee Church in Rome. In Japan, Mitsubishi markets a brand of titanium dioxide-treated paving stones and Toto makes coated ceramic tiles. The material hit the news again this week when the aluminium firm Alcoa announced &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/12\/smog-eating-material\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smog-eating material&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,624,735,620],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","category-ecologia","category-english","category-enlaces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12558,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557\/revisions\/12558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraynelson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}