In nanoscale particle research, precise control and separation have long been a bottleneck in biotechnology. Researchers at the University of Oulu have now developed a new method that improves ...

Rare earth elements are essential for modern technology, but their similar chemistry makes separation difficult and expensive ...

MIT engineers have come up with a method of extracting clean water and reusable oil from oil spills using nanoparticles that turn the oil into magnetic ferrofluids. When oil spills occur, the polluted ...

Scientists have developed a more powerful method of analyzing chemical mixtures, which has been able to assign a record-breaking number of 244,779 molecular compositions within a single sample of ...

Chromatography is relied on by many disciplines as a method of separating the components of a mixture. The basic idea of the process is that distinct compounds have different levels of solubility, ...

Separating out two liquids from a mixture — such as oil and water or a polymer and its solvent — is a process often employed by industry. It is usually achieved by lowering the temperature of a ...