Study demonstrates desalination with nanoporous graphene membrane
Researchers created nanopores in graphene (red, and enlarged in the circle to highlight its honeycomb structure) that are stabilized with silicon atoms (yellow) and showed their porous membrane could desalinate seawater.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-desalination-nanoporous-graphene-membrane.html#jCp