Oh, the many uses of this amazing material! Discovered a new application today -- desalination! With 70 percent of the Earth's water containing salt, the possible application of this to use the most plentiful source of water? Awesome.
"Earlier this year, University of Manchester researchers studying graphene’s ion permeation properties found that water molecules from a container diffused through a graphene membrane at the same evaporation rate whether the container was closed or open. Professor Andre Geim, a recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research with graphene, told WDR, “Its properties are so unusual that it is hard to imagine that they cannot find some use in the design of filtration, separation or barrier membranes and for selective removal of water.”SOURCES: http://www.desalination.com/wdr/48/28/graphene-membranes-show-promise
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