Seventy-five of the periodic table's 118 elements are carried in the pockets and purses of more than 100 million U.S. iPhone users every day. Some of these elements are abundant, like silicon in ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. A Research Agenda for Transforming Separation Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies ...

Researchers report a new physical model that shows how the topology of a porous material influences the phase separation of binary mixtures. The model uses two variables, the density field of a porous ...

A solid sorbent that selectively binds hydrocarbons may help the petrochemical industry reduce costs and energy consumption by increasing the efficiency of—or eliminating—energy-intensive separation ...

Students learn to identify various methods for separating mixtures to define density. Matter: Separation of Mixtures: Students learn to identify various methods for separating mixtures, to define ...

A joint paper by Kazan Federal University and YTC America appeared in early access in Carbon. The project was kickstarted in 2017 when a delegation of YTC America (subsidiary of Yazaki Corporation) ...

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