Researchers can now desalinate seawater with the power of the Sun
Andrew Tarantola
Engadget June 19, 2017
The research was carried out at the federally funded Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) at Rice University. Since its formation in 2015, NEWT has worked to develop a technology called "nanophotonics-enabled solar membrane distillation", or NESMD.