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APS: Nanotubes as filters

I just got out of a pretty cool talk about filtering water with carbon nanotubes. Apparently because the walls of the tubes are so smooth, water molecules can flow super fast through them. On top of that, the rims of the tubes are charged and can therefore reject unwanted ions.

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