In many chemical-related industries, such as pharmaceuticals, oil refineries, and food and beverage factories, separating organic liquid mixtures is an essential step. A staple method to achieve this ...

A potentially lower energy process is adsorptive separation. Recently, researchers have designed porous materials with well-defined aperture sizes to selectively trap desired molecules within the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The petrochemical industry relies on separating chemicals that differ by just fractions of a nanometer in size. Methanol must be purified from similarly-sized molecules in the ...

(Nanowerk News) Thanks to the Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology developed here and already widely used, the University of Augsburg is internationally recognized as the epicenter for "Nanoquakes ...