Crossflow (or tangential flow) filtration, in which the feed liquid passes both parallel and perpendicular to the membrane, allowing both retentate and permeate to be collected. Typical applications ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a bumper crop of home-made and commercially manufactured face masks. Almost daily, new ‘improved’ designs appear in the market, or online.

A multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists has discovered a new method for water filtration that could have implications for a variety of technologies, such as desalination plants, ...

Cities typically draw water from diverse sources, such as rivers, lakes, or reservoirs. Each source presents unique challenges, ranging from pollution concerns to industrial runoff. Pollution, both ...

Creating analytical tools that support the advancement of knowledge can often come about through the integration of existing information and techniques, theoretical and practical, directed toward a ...

Researchers developed a microfluidic method that combines electric-field-driven flow and viscoelastic forces to improve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To understand why this matters: PFAS are a class of roughly 16,000 compounds used since the 1940s in everything from non-stick ...

Dead phone batteries during emergencies are dangerous, but toxic chemicals in your drinking water? That’s a whole different level of nightmare fuel. Rice University researchers just unveiled a ...

Researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, are developing an alternative to nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid (Ni-NTA) to purify recombinant proteins. Because it uses common ...