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UNAM researchers manage to decontaminate water and recover oil using nanotechnology

By: Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, May 13, 2022.
Researchers from the Faculty of Higher Studies (FES) Cuautitlán of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, led by Yolanda Marina Vargas Rodríguez, manage to adsorb contaminants from water through the development of halloysite nanotubes, a clay mineral, and magnetite, another mineral that generates magnetism.

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