Hypersaline desalination (IMAGE)

Rice University

Hypersaline desalination

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Rice University engineers created a robust heating element for desalinating highly corrosive industrial-strength brine by adding a protective coating of the 2D nanomaterial hexagonal boron nitride to a commercially available stainless steel mesh.

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Kuichang Zuo/Rice University

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