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A multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists has discovered a new method for water filtration that could have implications for a variety of technologies, such as desalination plants, breathable and protective fabrics, and carbon capture in gas separations. The artificial water channels developed by the researchers enable fast and selective water permeation through water-wire networks, which are synthetic nanoarchitectures that mimic the function of proteins that serve as water channels in cell membranes.
