{"id":117916,"date":"2021-01-01T03:24:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T11:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/controlling-the-nanoscale-structure-of-membranes-is-key-for-clean-water-researchers-find"},"modified":"2021-01-01T03:24:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T11:24:10","slug":"controlling-the-nanoscale-structure-of-membranes-is-key-for-clean-water-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/controlling-the-nanoscale-structure-of-membranes-is-key-for-clean-water-researchers-find","title":{"rendered":"Controlling the nanoscale structure of membranes is key for clean water, researchers find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/controlling-the-nanoscale-structure-of-membranes-is-key-for-clean-water-researchers-find2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A desalination membrane acts as a filter for salty water: push the water through the membrane, get clean water suitable for agriculture, energy production and even drinking. The process seems simple enough, but it contains complex intricacies that have baffled scientists for decades\u2014until now.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Penn State, The University of Texas at Austin, Iowa State University, Dow Chemical Company and DuPont Water Solutions published a key finding in understanding how membranes actually filter minerals from water, online today (Dec. 31) in <i>Science<\/i>. The article will be featured on the print edition\u2019s cover, to be issued tomorrow (Jan. 1).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite their use for many years, there is much we don\u2019t know about how water filtration membranes work,\u201d said Enrique Gomez, professor of chemical engineering and materials science and engineering at Penn State, who led the research. \u201cWe found that how you control the density distribution of the membrane itself at the nanoscale is really important for water-production performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A desalination membrane acts as a filter for salty water: push the water through the membrane, get clean water suitable for agriculture, energy production and even drinking. The process seems simple enough, but it contains complex intricacies that have baffled scientists for decades\u2014until now. Researchers from Penn State, The University of Texas at Austin, Iowa [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,38,1506,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-food","category-nanotechnology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}