Rice University Solar Desalination 2019 (IMAGE)

Rice University

Rice University Solar Desalination 2019

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Rice University researchers (from left) Pratiksha Dongare, Alessandro Alabastri and Oara Neumann showed that Rice's 'nanophotonics-enabled solar membrane distillation' (NESMD) system was more efficient when the size of the device was scaled up and light was concentrated in 'hot spots.'

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