A Venus flytrap for nuclear waste

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 06:21 in Physics & Chemistry

Not every object is food to a Venus flytrap. Like the carnivorous plant, a new material developed at Northwestern University permanently traps only its desired prey, the radioactive ion caesium, and not other harmless ions like sodium...

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