Defects help nanomaterial soak up more pollutant in less time
Date | 13th, Mar 2019 |
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Source | Phys.org - Scientific News Websites |
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Cleaning pollutants from water with a defective filter sounds like a non-starter, but a recent study by chemical engineers at Rice University found that the right-sized defects helped a molecular sieve soak up more perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) in less time.