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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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…The journey had revealed science as a dialogue, not just with nature, but with colleagues, skeptics, and the sprawling realities of application. Each step—atomic design, hybrid supports, cleaning cycles—mapped new terrain where possibility met resistance. The closing question was not if the fullerene frontier would shape the future of molecular filtration, but how. What would it take for new ideas to not only break ground, but hold it? In the glimmering lattice of the latest membrane, they had glimpsed both an answer and the promise of more questions—proof that, at the edge of knowledge, progress is both arrival and invitation to venture further.