Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging thermal‐driven separation process that offers a sustainable alternative for desalination and water treatment. By utilising hydrophobic, microporous membranes ...

That ancient mariner was onto something when he said “water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink” – the vast majority of water on Earth is undrinkable. Desalination could be a vital technology to ...

Shanghai Electric (SEHK: 2727, SSE: 601727) now ranks 5th globally for the capacity of newly built seawater desalination projects from 2024 to 2025, a jump of four places from the previous ranking, ...

Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging separation technology utilizing hydrophobic membranes to separate vapor from liquid, making it effective for desalination and wastewater treatment. The ...

Researchers from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Manufacturing have developed a novel off-grid direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) system that ...

In a recent article published in Nature Communications, researchers presented a novel approach to fabricating an omniphobic membrane inspired by the unique surface structures of springtails, known for ...

A sample of a DUCKY polymer membrane researchers created to perform the initial separation of crude oils using significantly less energy. A new kind of polymer membrane created by researchers at ...

TOKYO & NEW YORK & DÜSSELDORF, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asahi Kasei has announced that in April 2024 it began selling a membrane system to produce WFI (water for injection), a type of sterile water ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The petrochemical industry relies on separating chemicals that differ by just fractions of a nanometer in size. Methanol must be purified from similarly-sized molecules in the ...

Two membrane start-ups have closed successful investment rounds. TeraPore Technologies raised a total of $10 million from Anzu Partners, RA Capital Management, and the electronic materials firm ...

Leading a research team that recently received a grant from the US Department of Energy, Michele Galizia, a President’s Associates Presidential Professor in the School of Sustainable Chemical, ...