Polymer membranes potentially offer a more sustainable way to separate chemical mixtures, compared with energy-intensive distillation or expensive chromatography. During organic solvent nanofiltration ...
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Membranes that allow certain molecules to quickly pass through while blocking others are key enablers for energy technologies from batteries and fuel cells to resource refinement and water ...
Asatekin lab focuses on new polymeric materials designed to self-assemble to impart improved and/or new functionality to separation membranes by controlling nano-scale morphology and surface ...
The study, published in Materials Today, details how these membranes could significantly improve energy efficiency and operational stability. Precisely engineered in both pore size and surface ...
(Nanowerk Spotlight) As high-tech industries continue to expand, the demand for rare earth elements – essential for everything from smartphones to electric vehicles – has skyrocketed, making the ...
A new cross-linking method creates 3-micron membranes with angstrom-scale pores, boosting efficiency in flow batteries by overcoming selectivity-permeability trade-offs. (Nanowerk News) Polymeric ...
Scientists have developed ultra-thin membranes with sub-2-nanometre channels that selectively filter ions, offering a major boost to clean energy systems like flow ...