How to make a better water filter? Turn it inside out

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(Funded by the National Science Foundation)

An international team of researchers uses the self-assembly properties of block co-polymers to produce a highly selective and biofouling-resistant nanoporous filter. The internally and externally cross-linked nanofibrils surrounded by a continuous aqueous medium produces a mechanically robust material that resembles an inverted strainer design.