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 ...

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, ...

Scientists have developed a more powerful method of analyzing chemical mixtures, which has been able to assign a record-breaking number of 244,779 molecular compositions within a single sample of ...

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 ...

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 ...