American engineers have developed a new material that could transform seawater intodrinking water by filtering large quantities of seawater through extremely small holescalled nanopores which block salt and other impurities.
- The researcherspublished their study in the Nature Communications journal onOct. 14.
Nanopores :
- The sheet material is made of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) about a nanometer thick. The nanopore sheet came out as the most efficient material out of all the thin-film sheaths the research team tried, being able to sift up to 70 percent more water than the rest. The material is porous and filters salt and dirt but allows water to filter through.
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