Tag: Graphene
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Highlights to watch at IDA World Congress 2017
Technical program chair Miguel Angel Sanz introduces his highlights from the line up at IDA World Congress 2017
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Graphene oxide membranes: ‘In an ideal world we will take five years to scale up’
"If everything goes to plan, my expectation is that we will have graphene oxide membranes in large scale production within the next five years," says Rahul Nair, professor of materials physics and Royal Society university research fellow at the National Graphene Institute and School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, at University of Manchester, UK.
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Q&A: Tim Harper, G20 Water Technologies
Former European Space Agency scientist Tim Harper, now chief executive of G2O Water Technologies, talks graphene-coated membranes
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UK researchers develop graphene membranes for desalination
Researchers at the National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, UK, have developed a new graphene oxide membrane for desalination.
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Masdar graphene study bags Abu Dhabi research prize
A graphene desalination membrane research project was among six proposals from Abu Dhabi’s sustainable technology-focused university, the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, that each won a AED 2 million (US$ 500,000) Abu Dhabi Education Council Award for Research Excellence.
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Arvia’s graphene technology secures US$ 6 million funding
Water and wastewater treatment company, Arvia Technology, has secured £4 million (US$ 5.96 million) in funding. for a series of demonstration industrial installations of its proprietary organics removal system based on the carbon allotrope, graphene.
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Graphene frameworks ‘can make desalination 100x faster’
New computational research on graphene sheets is showing that, when oxidized sheets are linked together as graphene oxide frameworks (GOFs), they can be used as a tunable desalination membrane.
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MIT team makes progress in graphene filtration control
A new method for controlling the creation of subnanometer-scale pores in graphene sheets could make all the difference in the use of the technology in desalination, according to a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Graphene membrane may have frac water application
Engineers at the University of South Carolina have constructed a graphene oxide (GO) membrane less than 2 nm thick with high permeation selectivity between hydrogen and carbon dioxide gas molecules.
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Grant support for UK graphene membrane research
Graphene researchers at the UK’s University of Manchester have been awarded a £ 3.5 million grant that could bring new desalination membranes, safer food packaging and enhanced disease detection closer to reality.