Roughly 1 percent of global energy use goes into separating crude oil into gasoline, diesel, and heating oil. That, in turn, ...

His lab’s working prototype of a hydrogen fuel cell, based on the finely patterned water-conducting scales of desert lizards ...

Lipid membranes, which form the outer layer of cells, can be engineered to influence cellular functions. For example, ...

Environmental and Architectural Engineering Assistant Professor Anthony Straub with PhD student Duong Nguyen contributing as first author. Straub said his team’s membrane could be used in advanced ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Industry has long relied upon energy-intensive processes, such as distillation and crystallization, to separate molecules that ultimately serve as ingredients in medicine, chemicals ...

Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the membranes could ultimately reduce production costs ... SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the ...

Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience Fouling occurs when contaminants accumulate on the membrane’s surface, clogging the pores. When a membrane experiences fouling, higher pressures ...

Researchers from the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) have uncovered the 3D structure of the ...

An assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, Straub’s research focuses on using membranes to improve water ...

202409274 with permission by Wiley-VCH Verlag) This innovative technique, detailed in a paper published in Advanced Functional Materials ("Synergistic Nanoarchitectonics: Precision Membrane ...

scientists explore what Dawei’s group called “membrane engineering techniques to construct highly flexible cell membranes … to break through the upper limit of lipophilic compound production.” ...

Engineers have developed a water-based battery that could help Australian households store rooftop solar energy more safely, ...