Membrane materials provide economical means to achieve various separation processes — and their capabilities for processing organic fluids look set to expand ...

(Nanowerk News) Industry has long relied upon energy-intensive processes, such as distillation and crystallization, to separate molecules that ultimately serve as ingredients in medicine, chemicals ...

Empowering Membrane Process Engineers: TRUSTECH Launches the Online Assistant “MEMTOOLS” In capacity planning a ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking one-step, crystal growth process for making ultra-thin layers of material with molecular-sized pores. Researchers demonstrated the use of the material, ...

MXene nanosheet-based catalytic membranes efficiently degrade antibiotics in pharmaceutical wastewater while reducing ...

Rice University has established the Rice Center for Membrane Excellence (RiCeME), which is dedicated to developing advanced membrane materials and separation technologies for energy, environmental ...

Selective removal of detrimental gases, e.g., hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) and carbon dioxide (CO 2) from natural gas (CH 4) could become simpler and highly effective using a new class of oriented ...

Researchers used electrospray technology to create ultra-thin, ultra-smooth polyamide membranes for reverse osmosis. This scalable process allows for better control of a membrane's fundamental ...

The U.S. chemical industry includes producers of industrial gases, large-volume commodity chemicals and polymers, chemical products for agricultural and medicinal uses, and performance-targeted ...

The membranes are made of stacks of MXenes—2D sheets that are only a few atoms thick. Ions squeeze through nanoscale channels formed in the gaps between the stacked MXene layers. Until now, scientists ...

Miao Yu receives funding from National Science Foundation. Bratin Sengupta does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this ...