Tailor-made membranes offer a cleaner method for the industrial-scale separation of chemical mixtures, says Suzana Nunes. But first we need to make their manufacture greener. Porous polymeric ...

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 ...

MIT engineers have come up with a method of extracting clean water and reusable oil from oil spills using nanoparticles that turn the oil into magnetic ferrofluids. When oil spills occur, the polluted ...

In this interview, Darren Broom, product manager at Hiden Isochema, talks to AZoM about a new technique that promises to accelerate materials development for gas separations. Industrial gases have an ...

Chromatography is relied on by many disciplines as a method of separating the components of a mixture. The basic idea of the process is that distinct compounds have different levels of solubility, ...

The United States is the world's largest consumer and producer of aluminum. In 1995, the primary smelting sector of the industry produced 3.375 million metric tons of aluminum, constituting 17.3 ...