The company's researchers finally devised a membrane of platinum foil sandwiched between two layers of titanium.
Desalination removes salt by forcing water against a membrane to remove salts via reverse osmosis.
The glycol is, in turn, covered by a membrane made of two layers of lipids (fat-like molecules).
The oldest enrichment technology, developed in the U.S. during World War II, diffuses the gas through a membrane.
When inserted into the machine, the punctured capsule acts as a membrane, allowing water to flow evenly through.
The engineers used a silicone polymer to build a centimeter-long jellyfish consisting of a membrane with eight armlike appendages.
The result is a membrane surface that favors water molecules, leading to higher throughput and significantly reduced energy costs.
Autophagy is an ancient mechanism, shared by all eukaryotic organisms (those which, unlike bacteria, keep their DNA in a membrane-bound nucleus within their cells).
The method is being employed at a small test facility, where waste water is piped through a complex maze of equipment, including a membrane that removes the nasty stuff.
Pumpkin soup held inside a spinach membrane, lemon juice contained in a lemon membrane, and coconut sorbet enclosed in a mango skin are just some of the creations the scientists showcased.
The theory is relatively simple: Seawater and freshwater, filtered to remove silt, are fed into pipes which lead to a membrane system, made up of spiral coils to maximize surface area.
By tapping some 20 scientists at research centers across Europe, Statkraft eventually found a membrane that can work for a small-scale plant, though it's not quite enough for a larger operation.
It is the process of moving water from an area with a low concentration of dissolved material, such as salt, to a place with a high concentration, by passing through a membrane.
As every schoolchild should know, water moves from a dilute to a concentrated solution through a semipermeable membrane by a process called osmosis.
In this, the electrolyte is a polymer membrane coated with platinum, a metal that acts as a catalyst for the chemistry involved.
Fuel cells come in several varieties, but the heart of the sort developed by Ballard is a polymer membrane coated on either side with platinum electrodes (the platinum also acts as a catalyst).
There's no mistaking the keys for those on a mushy membrane keyboard, but they aren't quite as firm or crisp-feeling as those a traditional mechanical keyboard like the Tactile Pro either.
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The salt water is zapped with electricity, (electrolyzed), where it meets a special membrane.
The crucial component is a thin membrane laced with expensive elements that helps conduct the chemical reaction.
Dr Astbury said that she had requested an ultrasound on 22 October after her patient sustained a ruptured membrane.
Such a system, Dr Dale thinks, could be the ancestor of the ribosome and, if wrapped in a fatty membrane, of the cell.
In a hydrogen fuel cell car, hydrogen gets drawn through a catalytic membrane: an electron gets stripped from the hydrogen to power the car.
Dr Weimer said that previous antibody-based tests lacked the sensitivity of ImmunoFlow because they relied on the bacteria diffusing through a paper membrane covered with antibodies.
But when it comes to futuristic applications, Amorim says promise has also been shown in a thin membrane of cork fabric that can repulse the strongest bullets.
That's the goal at a shop at Harvard, where Daniel Branton, a biophysicist, and his colleagues hope to design a better detector by passing DNA--a letter at a time--through a microscopic "nanopore" in a silicon membrane.
That is the goal at a shop a few miles down the road from U.S. Genomics, at Harvard, where biophysicist Daniel Branton and colleagues hope to design a better detector by passing DNA, one letter at a time, through a microscopic "nanopore" in a silicon membrane.
They overlaid muscle cells, obtained from a rat heart, on this membrane in a particular pattern.
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