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Mats of potassium manganese oxide nanowires, filtration on the cheap

on May 31st 2008

A durable and relatively inexpensive way to filter water from oils and bio-contaminants has been invented by researchers at MIT. These mats can be recycled and are very hydrophobic. According to the university it can absorb 20 times its weight in oil. “What we found is that we can make ‘paper’ from an interwoven mesh of […]

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