Designer 'Nanobatons' Could Be Used To Trap Oil, Deliver Drugs: Nanoparticles Assemble By Millions

In a development that could lead to new technologies for cleaning up oil spills and polluted groundwater, scientists at have shown how tiny, stick-shaped particles of metal and carbon can trap oil droplets in water by spontaneously assembling into bag-like sacs.

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