Water desalination with a single-layer MoS 2 nanopore

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Heiranian, Mohammad ^a   Farimani, Amir Barati ^a   Aluru, Narayana R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DESALINATION; MEMBRANE; MOLYBDENUM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POROUS MEDIUM; PURIFICATION; SULFIDE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84944338960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9616     Document Type: Article

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