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Groundwater pollution poses a significant threat to environmental sustainability during urbanization. Existing remediation methods like pump-and-treat and electrokinetics have limited ion transport control. This study introduces a coupled…
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When continued device scaling reaches the ultimate limit imposed by atoms, technology based on atomically precise structures is expected to emerge. Device fabrication will then require building blocks with identified atomic arrangements and…
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