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Beyond the Pore: Nanofiltration's Fullerene Frontier
This essay explores how tiling cyclic fullerene tetramers into a 2D sheet creates a precise molecular sieve with uniform sub-nanometre pores. The unique structure of these fullerene-based membranes offers a revolutionary approach to…
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…There was momentum now, and the next results could determine the fate of the project. As the titanium-supported, PEG-modified sheet was mounted for its first high-pressure run, the team gathered around the monitors. Would this new architecture offer the breakthrough they needed, or would the fullerene frontier prove a step too far? The answer would shape not only their research, but the future of molecular filtration itself.