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What if tiny sponge-like things known as “nanomaterials” were designed to fight climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide, the pollution that makes up most of the Earth’s greenhouse gas emissions?

Optical analysis and machine learning techniques can now readily detect microplastics in marine and freshwater environments using inexpensive porous metal substrates. Optical analysis and machine ...

Before you learn about the new building material designed by Spokane company AquiPor, cofounders Greg Johnson (CEO) and Kevin Kunz (vice president of market development) want you to know that their ...

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) scientists have created a breakthrough material that can clean industrial wastewater, separate oil spills, and possibly power wearable sensors. This low ...

A team developed photothermal porous polymer capable of ultra-fast adsorption and removal of phenolic microplastics and VOC contaminants in water. Showing the potential as a next-generation water ...

Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, polluted water, and increasingly strict environmental regulations are driving the search for materials that can efficiently trap pollutants at the molecular ...