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Nanofluidics coming of age

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This is a turning point for nanofluidics. Recent progress allows envisioning both fundamental discoveries for the transport of fluids at the ultimate scales, and disruptive technologies for the water–energy nexus.

In this Comment, I will highlight the discoveries that supported the progress of nanofluidics over the past years, their implications for water–energy technologies and envision the challenges that are ahead. Some of the research findings I will mention have been presented at the symposium on nanofluidics held last year at the Materials Research Society (MRS) fall meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, and have yet not been published.

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Bocquet, L. Nanofluidics coming of age. Nat. Mater. 19, 254–256 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-0625-8

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