{"id":227300,"date":"2025-12-17T01:41:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/engineers-develop-real-time-membrane-imaging-for-sustainable-water-filtration"},"modified":"2025-12-17T01:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:41:05","slug":"engineers-develop-real-time-membrane-imaging-for-sustainable-water-filtration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/engineers-develop-real-time-membrane-imaging-for-sustainable-water-filtration","title":{"rendered":"Engineers develop real-time membrane imaging for sustainable water filtration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-develop-real-time-membrane-imaging-for-sustainable-water-filtration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CU Boulder researchers have introduced a solution to improving the performance of large-scale desalination plants: stimulated Raman scattering (SRS).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.est.5c10405\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> in the journal <i>Environmental Science &amp; Technology<\/i>, the laser-based imaging method allows researchers to observe in real-time membrane fouling, a process where unwanted materials such as salts, minerals and microorganisms accumulate on filtration membranes.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide, 55% of people experience water scarcity at least one month a year, and that number is expected to climb to 66% by the end of the century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CU Boulder researchers have introduced a solution to improving the performance of large-scale desalination plants: stimulated Raman scattering (SRS). Published in the journal Environmental Science &amp; Technology, the laser-based imaging method allows researchers to observe in real-time membrane fouling, a process where unwanted materials such as salts, minerals and microorganisms accumulate on filtration membranes. Worldwide, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227300","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}