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IMAGE: This 3D model of a polymer desalination membrane shows water flow the silver channels, moving from top to bottom avoiding dense spots in the membrane and slowing flow.
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Credit: Image by the Ganapathysubramanian research group/Iowa State University and Gregory Foss/Texas Advanced Computing Center.
AMES, Iowa - Nature has figured out how to make great membranes.
Biological membranes let the right stuff into cells while keeping the wrong stuff out. And, as researchers noted in a paper just published by the journal
Science, they are remarkable and ideal for their job.
But they re not necessarily ideal for high-volume, industrial jobs such as pushing saltwater through a membrane to remove salt and make fresh water for drinking, irrigating crops, watering livestock or creating energy. ....

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