Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2020
Diagnosing single trees from above
Models based on images from unmanned aerial vehicles and satellites can help farmers to monitor the health of individual trees.
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Biochemistry
Jul 16, 2020
Membrane technology could cut emissions and energy use in oil refining
New membrane technology developed by a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, and ExxonMobil could help reduce carbon emissions and energy intensity associated with refining ...
Materials Science
Jul 13, 2020
New solar material could clean drinking water
Providing clean water to soldiers in the field and citizens around the world is essential, and yet one of the world's greatest challenges. Now a new super-wicking and super-light-absorbing aluminum material developed with ...
Materials Science
Jul 10, 2020
Research on seawater surface tension becomes international guideline
The property of water that enables a bug to skim the surface of a pond or keeps a carefully placed paperclip floating on the top of a cup of water is known as surface tension. Understanding the surface tension of water is ...
Materials Science
Jul 1, 2020
Shrimp shells to produce electrodes for large storage batteries
A project by Spanish researchers and other collaborators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests the use of chitin from shrimp shells to produce electrodes for vanadium flow batteries. The results of the ...
Environment
Jun 26, 2020
Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management
Water security is becoming an urgent global challenge. Hundreds of millions of people already live in water-scarce regions, and the UN projects that by 2030 about half the world's population will be living in highly water-stressed ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 8, 2020
Ultrathin nanosheets separate ions from water
In a world-first, an international research team, led by Monash University and ANSTO, has created an ultrathin porous membrane to completely separate potentially harmful ions, such as lead and mercury, from water.
Materials Science
Jun 3, 2020
Pinpointing the effects of nanoconfinement on water
Researchers have spent decades studying the properties of water and how they change when there are disruptions to their normal behavior. Research on the topic has a wide range of applications, from biochemical systems to ...
Bio & Medicine
May 21, 2020
Membrane nanopore transport gets picky
Trying to determine how negatively charged ions squeeze through a carbon nanotube 20,000 times smaller than a human hair is no easy feat.
Environment
May 20, 2020
Less water could sustain more Californians if we make every drop count
California isn't running out of water," says Richard Luthy. "It's running out of cheap water. But the state can't keep doing what it's been doing for the past 100 years."
