ORNL-Led Team Demonstrates Desalination with Nanoporous Graphene Membrane
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 16:50
in Physics & Chemistry
Desalination is an energy-intensive process, which concerns those wanting to expand its application. Now, a team of experimentalists led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated an energy-efficient desalination technology that uses a porous membrane made of strong, slim graphene--a carbon honeycomb one atom thick. The results are published in the March 23 advance online issue of Nature Nanotechnology.