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Reporting in ACS Nano, researchers made tiny magnetic beads that swarm through contaminated water picking up contaminants like microplastics and bacteria.

Read the paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.4c02115
(Corresponding author: Martin Pumera, Ph.D.)

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