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  "textContent": "Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, Israel's Tel Aviv University and other institutions have developed a first-of-its-kind membrane through which charged molecules pass using nothing more than a rapidly switching low-voltage signal. This \"ratchet-based ion pump\" has no moving parts and requires no chemical reactions.",
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