FINANCIAL TIMES: Graphene filters change the economics of clean water

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    New approaches to filtration and extracting moisture from air promise to alleviate the world’s looming water scarcity crisis.

    Filtration is being transformed by thin sheets of graphene, a carbon-based material invented in 2004 at Manchester University. Rahul Raveendran Nair, the university’s professor of materials physics, says graphene has the potential to deliver large quantities of clean water via desalination and the removal of pollutants.

    Period8 Jan 2018

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    • TitleGraphene filters change the economics of clean water
      Media name/outletThe Financial Times
      Media typeWeb
      Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
      Date8/01/18
      DescriptionNew approaches to filtration and extracting moisture from air promise to alleviate the world’s looming water scarcity crisis.

      Filtration is being transformed by thin sheets of graphene, a carbon-based material invented in 2004 at Manchester University. Rahul Raveendran Nair, the university’s professor of materials physics, says graphene has the potential to deliver large quantities of clean water via desalination and the removal of pollutants.
      URLhttps://www.ft.com/content/d768030e-d8ec-11e7-9504-59efdb70e12f?FTCamp=engage/CAPI/webapp/Channel_Moreover//B2B
      PersonsRahul Raveendran Nair
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    Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

    • Advanced materials

    Keywords

    • graphene
    • materials
    • desalination
    • water supplies