A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has devised a pathway for the mass manufacture of sensors that can simultaneously detect lead, mercury, and E. coli bacteria in flowing tap water. At the core of these sensors lies a one-nanometer-thick layer of carbon and oxygen atoms, which is coated on a silicon substrate.
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