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Water laced with heavy metals, like the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, can be stripped

of contaminants using chemicals, filters, membranes, even electric current. But now researchers say they've

created what could be a cheaper, more effective solution, a fleet of microscopic,

self-propelled aquatic robots, each one the size of just 10 lined-up bacteria, so tiny that

a billion will fit in a syringe. Each tube-shaped microbot is a sandwich of three materials,

a graphene outer layer, which binds to heavy metals, a middle layer of nickel, which gives

the bots magnetic polarity so they can be pulled through wastewater with magnets, and a platinum

inside for propulsion.

Just add a bit of peroxide to the wastewater, and it'll react with the platinum to form water

and oxygen bubbles, which propel the tubes along.

In an hour, a swarm of 200,000 bots scavenged 80% of the lead from 3 milliliters of tainted water,

and the researchers estimate that it costs only about 5 cents a liter to do so.

The findings are in the journal Nanoletters.

The researchers envision the bots as a portable solution for small companies.

They'd treat their water on site instead of carting it to a treatment plan.

And after the robots do the rounds, the heavy metals can be stripped away,

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