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Nanoplastics pose serious environmental and health risks due to their widespread presence in aquatic systems. Detecting trace amounts of nanoplastics is a challenging task, which currently requires sophisticated equipment and tedious sample…
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Ion transport in extremely narrow nanochannels has gained increasing interest in recent years due to its unique physical properties, and the technological advances that allow us to study them. It is tempting to approach this regime with the…
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