{"603625":{"#nid":"603625","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Brewing a better cup of coffee","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe four materials science and engineering majors gathered one August morning for their senior design class. It was 8am and they all sipped coffee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETyler Quill joked that his dentist would kill him for drinking coffee, knowing how the beverage\u0026rsquo;s acidity contributes to tooth and enamel erosion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Then we started talking about why that happens and how great it would be if we could find a way to fix the problem,\u0026rdquo; said Quill, who is from Grayson, Ga.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETogether the team designed pHAM, a filter to reduce coffee\u0026rsquo;s acidity. They incorporated a mineral blend into the structure of the filter paper, which reduces the acidity of the brewed coffee without negatively affecting the taste.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe creation is one of six competing for Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s annual invention competition, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2018\/03\/06\/brewing-better-cup-coffee\u0022\u003ERead the entire story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe creation is one of six competing for Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s annual invention competition, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInVenture Prize\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Team designs pHAM, a filter to reduce coffee\u2019s acidity"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2018-03-12 14:48:05","changed_gmt":"2018-03-12 14:48:49","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"603623":{"id":"603623","type":"image","title":"pHAM reduces coffee\u0027s acidity during brewing","body":null,"created":"1520865851","gmt_created":"2018-03-12 14:44:11","changed":"1520865851","gmt_changed":"2018-03-12 14:44:11","alt":"","file":{"fid":"230081","name":"Coffee Filter - RBI.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Coffee%20Filter%20-%20RBI.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Coffee%20Filter%20-%20RBI.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1975857,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Coffee%20Filter%20-%20RBI.jpg?itok=DJ1bPcII"}}},"media_ids":["603623"],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"},{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B Smith, kelly.smith@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}