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Greg Bernhardt
Jan27-12, 11:16 AM
Wonder material graphene has revealed another of its extraordinary properties - University of Manchester researchers have found that it is superpermeable with respect to water.

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/news/display/?id=7895
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1112/1112.3488.pdf


What kinds of applications can you see this being used in and how soon?

nitsuj
Jan27-12, 01:59 PM
I wonder if it could seperate salt from sea water.

Greg Bernhardt
Jan27-12, 02:02 PM
I wonder if it could seperate salt from sea water.

Even if it could, would it be viably fast enough?