CNTs for advanced water filtration
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have created carbon nanotube (CNT) pores which – at just 0.8 nm in diameter – are so efficient at removing salt from water that they are comparable to commercial desalination membranes.
As the dominant technology for removing salt from water, reverse osmosis uses thin-film composite membranes to separate water from the ions present in saline feed streams.
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