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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2012
Sergiu M. Gorun, Montclair, NJ (US);
Kimberly Ann Griswold, Flanders, NJ (US);
Sergiu M. Gorun, Montclair, NJ (US);
Kimberly Ann Griswold, Flanders, NJ (US);
The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method of purifying or sanitizing contaminated water to be potable, by exposing the water in the presence of light, to an electrically neutral metal complex of a perfluoroalkylated fluorinated phthalocyanine photosensitizer, having only external R groups with C—F bonds, preferably FPcZn; whereby, a sufficient quantity of singlet oxygen is provided by the chemical reaction of the light and the photosensitizer to destroy the pollutants or pathogens present in the contaminated water.