In many chemical-related industries, such as pharmaceuticals, oil refineries, and food and beverage factories, separating organic liquid mixtures is an essential step. A staple method to achieve this ...

Several industries require essential processes for separating mixtures into their constituent substances. Advancing research, scientists from Japan have now developed a novel, versatile, and ...

Polymer membranes with improved transport properties are required for effective separation of organic mixtures (such as methanol‒hexane system) by combination of pervaporation and azeotropic ...

Unlike in thermodynamic systems, phase separation can occur without a thermodynamic driving force in active systems. How phase separation of purely hydrodynamic origin proceeds is an intriguing ...

The U.S. chemical industry includes producers of industrial gases, large-volume commodity chemicals and polymers, chemical products for agricultural and medicinal uses, and performance-targeted ...

Separating mixtures into their constituent substances is essential in many fields. For example, mixture separation plays a key role in the petrochemical industry, as well as in chemical purification ...

The United States is the world's largest consumer and producer of aluminum. In 1995, the primary smelting sector of the industry produced 3.375 million metric tons of aluminum, constituting 17.3 ...