Technology - Graphene Watch

Graphene versus graphyne

Over the last few years, interest has risen in the use of graphene in desalination systems. Its conductive properties have led to interest as an electrode material in capacitive deionization...

Low-energy EMD process grabs attention

In the three weeks since research results on electrochemically mediated desalination (EMD) were published in the online version of Angewandte Chemie – the highly respected scientific journal of the...

Graphene membrane R&D gets funding

University of Manchester Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov isolated graphene in 2003 and were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics and knighted for their work with the wonder material.

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Aerospace firm tests graphene membrane

Graphene is a two-dimensional material that consists of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb structure. Since researchers first isolated graphene flakes ten years ago, the ‘...

New Technology

After almost 40 years of lurking in the research laboratories, membrane distillation is beginning to show some promise as a commercial technology. In separate projects, researchers in Australia and...

Graphene membranes show promise

In the 1967 film The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman’s character is a recent college graduate contemplating his future. A family friend offers him one word of career advice: “plastics”. A 2012 version of...

Semipermeable or SUPERpermeable?

In last week’s Science, researchers at the University of Manchester presented yet another potential application for a material that the University humbly says “is going to revolutionize the 21st...

12 desal R&D projects receive funding

An inaugural funding round by Australia’s National Centre of Excellence in Desalination (NCED) attracted 61 expressions of interest, from which 12 projects have been selected to receive a...