Reporting in ACS Nano, researchers made tiny magnetic beads that swarm through contaminated water picking up contaminants like microplastics and bacteria.
Read the paper: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/a...
(Corresponding author: Martin Pumera, Ph.D.)
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