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Producing clean water in an emergency

McGill researchers develop a new and inexpensive way of filtering water using silver nanoparticles

2011-02-24
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The team's findings were recently published in the Journal of Environmental Science & Technology. For an abstract of the article, please visit: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es103302t?prevSearch=%2528dankovich%2529%2BNOT%2B%255Batype%253A%2Bad%255D%2BNOT%2B%255Batype%253A%2Bacs-toc%255D&searchHistoryKey=

For more information about Derek Gray's lab: http://www.mcgill.ca/pprc/members/gray/

Complete article available on request.

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[Press-News.org] Producing clean water in an emergency
McGill researchers develop a new and inexpensive way of filtering water using silver nanoparticles