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Salt water can be separated into desalted and saltier streams by a nanochannel-based device that requires only low-voltage electricity.

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Figure 1: A small-scale seawater desalination method.

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  1. Mark A. Shannon is at the Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems and the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. mshannon@illinois.edu,

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