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Using the case of a smart nano water filter that was developed to treat water in Zimbabwe, this article investigates how the filter developed and travelled within a development context and how this relates to promises of nanotechnology for development. The case study is set in a low-resource environment to demonstrate empirically that how and whether or not nanotechnology products are solutions to...