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Graphene Made Permeable to Ions

Created a model system with a defect that allows the halides fluoride, chloride and bromide to pass through, but not iodide.

Chemists in WĂĽrzburg have for the first time created a defect in graphene that allows ions to pass through. As they report in Nature, this could lead to new applications in water filtration or sensor technology. Graphene is an extremely thin, flexible and resilient material made of pure carbon. It forms layers that consist of practically just a single layer of carbon atoms. To make graphene as thick as a human hair, you would have to stack thousands of such layers on top of each other. Man...

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