Inventor • Environmental Activist • Entrepreneur
Born 2000 • Ireland
Ferreira mixed light vegetable oil and magnetite powder in polluted water, forming a ferrofluid (magnetic liquid). He then used a magnet to attract and remove microplastics.
Ferreira is working to create global water treatment solutions with his invention.
Read more about Ferreira’s story in STEAM in History: Fionn Ferreira .