Water desalination membranes can be created by etching nanometre-sized pores in a single layer of graphene.
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Koh, DY., Lively, R. Membranes at the limit. Nature Nanotech 10, 385–386 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.77
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