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NANOPOROUS MEMBRANE

Low-energy desalination

Nature Nanotechnology volume 13, pages 273–274 (2018)Cite this article

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A nanoporous membrane made of carbon nanofibres and a porous ceramic substrate shows superfast water vapour transport while blocking salts.

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Fig. 1: Schematic illustration of supported nanoporous fibrous carbon membrane for forward osmosis and vacuum membrane distillation processes.

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