(Nanowerk Spotlight) Decreasing availability of potable water is a crisis in the making and freshwater looks like it will become the oil of the 21st century – scarce, expensive and fought over (see ...

The demand for better, natural flavours in food and beverages will continue to grow as consumers gravitate towards healthier options and living. Manufacturers have had to adjust accordingly to meet ...

October 15, 2007 Access to clean drinking water remains a major problem in many parts of the world. Over one billion people lack this basic requirement on a daily basis, and water-borne illness has ...

With energy-efficient desalination techniques, water-starved communities could produce fresh water from salty sources such as seawater and industrial wastewater. But common methods like reverse ...

Forward osmosis (FO), an emerging membrane-based technology, possesses low energy consumption and low membrane fouling potential, but the lack of high-performance FO membrane hinders the large-scale ...

One of the last experiments ever performed on a space shuttle may one day help develop an efficient way to convert astronauts' urine into drinking water. The shuttle Atlantis is carrying the ...