Nature Communications (May 2017)

Membraneless water filtration using CO2

  • Sangwoo Shin,
  • Orest Shardt,
  • Patrick B. Warren,
  • Howard A. Stone

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15181
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Water treatment processes mostly rely on the use of membranes and filters, which have high pumping costs and require periodic replacement. Here, the authors describe an efficient membraneless method that induces directed motion of suspended colloidal particles by exposing the suspension to CO2.