Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene 2014 Sept - Oct Vol. 9 No.5 | Page 17

Water Quality

Across Nanoporous Graphene,” at the IEEE Conference
on Technology for Sustainability, held in August, in
Portland, Ore.
“It’s essentially a single layer of carbon atoms shaped like
a honeycomb,” he explains. “Produced with holes in it,
graphene is a much thinner, more porous, and efficient
membrane than the polymers generally used for filtering
water. It’s extremely