 So when I was a kid I loved magnets Don't we all and as an adult I Do as well and I play with it every day So a number of years ago. I started a company called ADS We started looking to use computational chemistry to design these tiny tiny magnets nano magnets Now what's nano? Nano is really really small. It's a billionth of a meter to give you a perspective if you took one nanometer particle Right, and you put it next to a biological cell that would be like taking a fist and putting it next to the Empire State Building So it's really small and we could modify the surfaces So that it could bind to anything and we started working with blood and Diagnosing illnesses and glucose and we thought you know what? There's an aha moment And and this is what Ted's all about and you say well, maybe this can work for something else And we thought water treatment Well, it's cheap to make we could change anything on the surfaces to bind to various contaminants And we could pull it out using a magnet, so I'd like to show you what we've done So I have E. Coli here. I'm gonna use a glove And what I'm doing is I'm putting in about a hundred times more E. Coli than is considered safe So if I were to drink this now, we can all say that I will probably be on the toilet for a very very long time now Right here put this on the side Right here I've got magnetic nanomaterials now. They're really small if you could see they're tiny tiny and there are billions of them and We've used this computational chemistry To make them bind selectively to E. Coli and kill it What the magnetic materials are doing are actually they have these little swords on the surfaces and they're finding the E. Coli And they're poking holes and killing it now I could drink this right now but would you and I'm gonna pour this out and right here is a simple magnet and it's gonna pull all of these nanomaterials out So we've actually We've killed all the E. Coli and all this is doing is pulling out those nanomaterials so they could be reused and recycled This is very cheap to make and for a few dollars just a few dollars people can have safe Pure water all over the world. It's kind of cool so To life