Defects help nanomaterial soak up more pollutant in less time
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 13:01
in Earth & Climate
Cleaning pollutants from water with a defective filter sounds like a non-starter, but a recent study by chemical engineers at Rice University found that the right-sized defects helped a molecular sieve soak up more perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) in less time.