Desalination discovery

1/13/2016

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Science 360 Radio (National Science Foundation, Jan. 13) -- Audio explanation of new nanopore membrane that can greatly improve the reverse osmosis desalination process. Illinois professor Narayana Aluru led a team that found that tiny pores in thin sheets of the material molybdenum disulfide could be very good at removing salt from seawater to yield drinkable water.


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This story was published January 13, 2016.