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Stanford researchers make ammonia from air and water microdroplets

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MAY 1, 2023

Stanford researchers, with a colleague from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, have developed a simple and environmentally sound way to make ammonia with tiny droplets of water and nitrogen from the air. Water microdroplets are the hydrogen source for N 2 in contact with Fe 3 O 4. —Song et al. Song et al.

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The enhancement of water resources, water science, and water quality

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

Dr Thomas Shahady, Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Lynchburg, explores the enhancement of water quality. The post The enhancement of water resources, water science, and water quality appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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UT El Paso-led team designs cactus-inspired low-cost, efficient water-splitting catalyst

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MAY 16, 2023

Researchers led by engineers at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have proposed a low-cost, cactus-inspired nickel-based material to help split water more cheaply and efficiently. Nickel, however, is not as quick and effective at breaking down water into hydrogen. who led the study. Every day, I passed this same plant.

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Researchers at Korea University develop high-performance textile-based electrodes for watersplitting

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Researchers at Korea University have developed high-performance, textile-based electrodes for watersplitting (WSE); the non-noblemetal-based electrodes can generate a large amount of hydrogen with low overpotentials and high operational stability. 2 for the HER and 186 mV at 50 mA cm ?2 doi: 10.1039/d2ee01510b.

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A New Energy-Efficient Hydrogel Pulls Water From Air

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter.

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Audi, Freiburg University of Mining and Technology investigating bio-leaching and membrane mining for high-tech elements

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JULY 13, 2022

The Audi Environmental Foundation, a subsidiary of AUDI AG founded in 2009, has joined forces with the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology to research new ways of mining high-tech elements. Moreover, mining activities have a drastic impact on the environment.

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U Oregon team advances effectiveness of catalytic water dissociation in bipolar membranes

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JULY 3, 2020

Researchers at the University of Oregon have advanced the effectiveness of the catalytic water dissociation reaction in bipolar membranes. The technology behind bipolar membranes, which are layered ion-exchange polymers sandwiching a water dissociation catalyst layer, emerged in the 1950s. —Oener et al.

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Study reveals hidden triggers of global water scarcity

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Recent research conducted at Stockholm University has unveiled a new approach to quantifying the global risk of water scarcity. The post Study reveals hidden triggers of global water scarcity appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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An invisible water crisis is affecting water quality globally

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Researchers at Utrecht University have concluded that severe water quality issues are being caused by an invisible water crisis. The post An invisible water crisis is affecting water quality globally appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Researchers split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Researchers from the University of Adelaide and Tianjin University have successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen. The use of vast amounts of high-purity water for hydrogen production may aggravate the shortage of freshwater resources. A paper on the work is published in Nature Energy.

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Researchers create salts for cheap and efficient CO2 capture; mimicking methane hydrate

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MAY 8, 2023

Yavuz of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Prof. Bo Liu from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and Prof. A) CO 2 hydrate where CO 2 molecules are trapped in water clusters at high pressures and low temperatures. A team of international researchers led by Professor Cafer T.

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New catalyst synthesis method for solar water splitting to produce hydrogen

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

A research team led by Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute Of Science And Technology (DGIST) Professor Jong-Sung Yu in Korea, with colleagues at UC Berkeley and Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, has successfully developed a new catalyst synthesis method that can efficiently decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen using solar light.

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MBL begins first test of tropical seaweed farming for biofuels production

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MAY 17, 2021

A team of researchers led by Loretta Roberson, associate scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, has installed the first seaweed farm in Puerto Rico and US tropical waters. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution and an affiliate of the University of Chicago.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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APRIL 20, 2023

universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. and its environs. The EPICS contest asked students and faculty at U.S. Of the 20 proposals submitted from eight institutions, 10 were approved and funded. I’ve learned so many things.”

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Bath University and SAIC Motor team up to investigate gasoline particulate filter performance

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The University of Bath and SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre are collaborating on a project to identify the most efficient conditions for the optimum performance of gasoline particulate filters (GPFs), to help minimize vehicle impact on the environment.

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Water splitting using iron oxide nanotruss structures

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JULY 20, 2018

Researchers at Linköping University and Umeå University in Sweden have developed a new and efficient way to use electrocatalysis to produce hydrogen gas from water using electrodes with nanotruss structures of iron oxide. The environment in an electrolyte can be very rough-and-tumble. —Sebastian Ekeroth.

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Accuracy of global water models tested by new research

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A University of Nottingham study has tested the quality of global water models in collaboration with other international partners. The post Accuracy of global water models tested by new research appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Researchers review risk to water resources from unconventional shale gas development in US

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JUNE 19, 2014

They identified four potential modes of water resource degradation: (1) shallow aquifers contaminated by fugitive natural gas (i.e., They identified four potential modes of water resource degradation: (1) shallow aquifers contaminated by fugitive natural gas (i.e., Credit: ACS, Vengosh et al. Click to enlarge.

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LANL and WSU researchers develop high-performance anion exchange membrane water electrolyzer with nickel-iron catalyst

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MARCH 20, 2020

Currently the most popular system used for water electrolysis for hydrogen production relies on precious metals as catalysts. The research team worked to solve this problem by splitting water under alkaline, or basic, conditions with an anion exchange membrane electrolyzer. V without a corrosive circulating alkaline solution.

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University of Kentucky chemist receives NSF grant to study atmospheric reactions of pollution

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AUGUST 16, 2019

University of Kentucky Chemistry Professor Marcelo Guzman has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research, education and outreach efforts in the field of environmental and atmospheric chemistry. Both types of emissions cause tiny particles to be suspended in air.

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SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI.

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CritMET team examines distribution of germanium and gallium in deep-sea crusts

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MAY 16, 2022

Using new analytical methods, the research group “CritMET: Critical Metals for Enabling Technologies” led by Michael Bau, Professor of Geochemistry at Jacobs University in Bremen has studied the distribution of germanium and gallium in iron-manganese crusts from the deep sea. Source: Jacobs University).

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EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

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JUNE 28, 2021

The EU-funded research project HyFlexFuel recently successfully produced biocrudes via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) from a variety of biomasses, including sewage sludge, food waste, manure, wheat straw, corn stover, pine sawdust, miscanthus and microalgae in a pilot-scale continuous HTL plant at Aarhus University (Denmark).

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New robust triple-layer bifunctional catalyst for water splitting with earth-abundant materials

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JULY 27, 2017

A new robust and highly active bifunctional catalyst developed by Rice University and the University of Houston splits water into hydrogen and oxygen without the need for expensive metals such as platinum. Credit: Desmond Schipper/Rice University). V with excellent stability. Click to enlarge. —Kenton Whitmire.

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Univ of Illinois team mixed metals with perchloric acid to create stable, efficient catalyst for water splitting

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have mixed metal compounds with perchloric acid to create a stable, efficient electrocatalytic material for the oxygen evolution reaction in acidic media. Electrolyzers use electricity to break water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. The resulting porous Y 2 [Ru 1.6

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S. Korean team develops highly efficient, long-lasting electrocatalyst to boost electrolytic hydrogen production

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NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Conventional water electrolysis for the production of hydrogen faces technological challenges to improve the efficiency of the water-splitting reaction for the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Oxygen and hydrogen are generated during a water electrolysis reaction (top right). Credit IBS. doi: 10.1039/D0EE03183F.

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UMD-led study: road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

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APRIL 14, 2021

But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health.

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As Tesla waits for Giga Berlin’s final approval, critics reiterate water supply concerns

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With the massive factory still awaiting its final approval, some of Giga Berlin’s critics have reiterated concerns about the electric vehicle factory’s water consumption. Elon Musk has been asked about Giga Berlin’s water consumption in the past. The factory just is not a very intense consumer of water per square meter. “The

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DOE awarding $35M to 11 projects for hydrokinetic turbine development; ARPA-E SHARKS

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Projects will work to reduce the LCOE through multiple approaches, including increasing generation efficiency, increasing rotor area per unit of equivalent mass, lowering operation and maintenance costs, minimizing potential impacts on the surrounding environment, and maximizing system reliability. The University of Michigan.

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Ensuring Underwater Robots Survive in Hot Tropical Waters

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The hot, humid environment of tropical marine areas such as Australia’s Great Barrier Reef can wreak havoc on the marine autonomous systems. Olsen grew up in a farming family and wasn’t really exposed to computers or engineers until an EE lecturer from James Cook University , in Australia, came to her rural high school to give a presentation.

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U-M, Ford open robotics complex to accelerate future of advanced, more equitable robotics and mobility

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MARCH 17, 2021

The University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company are opening a new advanced robotics facility. The fourth floor houses Ford’s first robotics and mobility research lab on a university campus, as well as 100 Ford researchers—including autonomous vehicle researchers—and engineers. Robots and robotics for any environment.

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Study finds perennial biofuel crops’ water consumption similar to corn

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JULY 7, 2015

Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the sum total of water lost while the plant is growing, either from evaporation through the plant stem itself (a process called “transpiration”), or from water evaporated off of the plant’s leaves or the ground. —Hamilton et al.

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U Vienna team finds stable metabolized TWP-derived compounds with unknown toxicities in lettuce

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

Researchers at the University of Vienna (Austria) have demonstrated that tire wear particle (TWP)-derived compounds are readily taken up by lettuce with measured maximum leaf concentrations between ∼0.75 for N-phenyl-N′-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD) and 20 μg g –1 for hexamethoxymethyl melamine (HMMM). million tons per year.

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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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OCTOBER 2, 2022

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. You’d waste more water than you saved.

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DOE announces finalists of Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize

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JULY 14, 2022

The United States depends on other countries for nearly all its lithium supply and mining the mineral strains water resources and can harm the environment. The finalists are: George Washington University – Team Ellexco: “Chemical-Free Extraction of Lithium from Brines”.

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TU Dresden chemists develop noble metal aerogels for electrochemical hydrogen production

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APRIL 10, 2020

New-type noble metal aerogels were developed for outstanding pH-universal electrocatalysis toward hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen reduction reaction. Universal HER and ORR Electrocatalysis.” These findings largely span the application territory of NMAs for fuel cells, green hydrogen production and many more. Credit: Wiley-VCH.

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Study finds twice as many cellulose fibers as microplastics in the Atlantic Ocean

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APRIL 4, 2022

A study by three French institutes—Ifremer, the University of Bordeaux and the IRD (a public research institution)—has found that the surface water of the Atlantic Ocean is twice as polluted by cellulose fibers as it is by microplastics. This unique set of data casts doubt then over the internal dynamics of the gyre.

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Selective confinement of rare-earth-metal hydrates in host molecules

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AUGUST 23, 2022

They are everywhere in the environment but are highly dispersed and bound in minerals (“earths”); large deposits are rare. Rare-earth-metal ions are also found in bodies of water and in effluent. One reason for this is that they are usually hydrated, meaning that they are bound to water molecules. Tabuchi et al.

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Audi Environmental Foundation, TUB developing microplastics filter for tire wear particles

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MARCH 24, 2022

The Audi Environmental Foundation is developing filters for urban runoff in conjunction with the Technical University of Berlin (TUB). The filters prevent tire wear particles and other environmentally harmful substances from being washed into sewers and bodies of water along with rainwater.

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UTSA, SwRI researchers developing low-cost method to treat fracking water using biochar

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are investing $200,000 in new research to develop a low-cost method to treat flow-back water following hydraulic fracturing. It will be tested on water samples from the Eagle Ford Shale.

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Chalmers study finds ship exhaust gas scrubbers responsible for up to 9% of certain hazardous emissions into Baltic Sea

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

New research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, finds that the discharge water from ships’ exhaust gas treatment systems—i.e., For many years, we’ve flagged the fact that scrubbers account for disproportionately large emissions of hazardous and acidifying substances into the marine environment.

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GE and Berkeley Lab developing water-based high energy density flow battery for EVs

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AUGUST 30, 2013

Conceptual design of a water-based flow battery GE scientists are researching as part of ARPA-E’s RANGE program. Researchers from GE and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are developing a water-based flow battery targeted at EVs. Energy Environ. Click to enlarge. Konezny, Aaron Shim, Robert H.

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Monash “artificial photosynthesis” system achieves in excess of 22% efficiency for production of hydrogen from water

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AUGUST 11, 2015

A team at Monash University (Australia) has developed an “artificial photosynthesis” system that delivers the highest efficiency reported to date—in excess of 22%—for the solar-driven conversion of water to hydrogen. A paper on the researchers’s work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

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JUNE 14, 2012

Produced water from coal-bed natural gas (CBNG) production may contain sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO 3 ) at concentrations that can harm aquatic life, according to a new study by the US Geological Survey; Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks; the Bureau of Land Management and the US Environmental Protection Agency. —USGS Director Marcia McNutt.

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Stanford researchers make ammonia from air and water microdroplets

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UT El Paso-led team designs cactus-inspired low-cost, efficient water-splitting catalyst

Researchers at Korea University develop high-performance textile-based electrodes for watersplitting

A New Energy-Efficient Hydrogel Pulls Water From Air

Audi, Freiburg University of Mining and Technology investigating bio-leaching and membrane mining for high-tech elements

U Oregon team advances effectiveness of catalytic water dissociation in bipolar membranes

Study reveals hidden triggers of global water scarcity

An invisible water crisis is affecting water quality globally

Researchers split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen

Researchers create salts for cheap and efficient CO2 capture; mimicking methane hydrate

New catalyst synthesis method for solar water splitting to produce hydrogen

MBL begins first test of tropical seaweed farming for biofuels production

Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

Bath University and SAIC Motor team up to investigate gasoline particulate filter performance

Water splitting using iron oxide nanotruss structures

Accuracy of global water models tested by new research

Researchers review risk to water resources from unconventional shale gas development in US

LANL and WSU researchers develop high-performance anion exchange membrane water electrolyzer with nickel-iron catalyst

University of Kentucky chemist receives NSF grant to study atmospheric reactions of pollution

SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

CritMET team examines distribution of germanium and gallium in deep-sea crusts

EU project HyFlexFuel converted sewage sludge and other biomasses into kerosene by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL); SAF

New robust triple-layer bifunctional catalyst for water splitting with earth-abundant materials

Univ of Illinois team mixed metals with perchloric acid to create stable, efficient catalyst for water splitting

S. Korean team develops highly efficient, long-lasting electrocatalyst to boost electrolytic hydrogen production

UMD-led study: road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

As Tesla waits for Giga Berlin’s final approval, critics reiterate water supply concerns

DOE awarding $35M to 11 projects for hydrokinetic turbine development; ARPA-E SHARKS

Ensuring Underwater Robots Survive in Hot Tropical Waters

U-M, Ford open robotics complex to accelerate future of advanced, more equitable robotics and mobility

Study finds perennial biofuel crops’ water consumption similar to corn

U Vienna team finds stable metabolized TWP-derived compounds with unknown toxicities in lettuce

This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

DOE announces finalists of Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize

TU Dresden chemists develop noble metal aerogels for electrochemical hydrogen production

Study finds twice as many cellulose fibers as microplastics in the Atlantic Ocean

Selective confinement of rare-earth-metal hydrates in host molecules

Audi Environmental Foundation, TUB developing microplastics filter for tire wear particles

UTSA, SwRI researchers developing low-cost method to treat fracking water using biochar

Chalmers study finds ship exhaust gas scrubbers responsible for up to 9% of certain hazardous emissions into Baltic Sea

GE and Berkeley Lab developing water-based high energy density flow battery for EVs

Monash “artificial photosynthesis” system achieves in excess of 22% efficiency for production of hydrogen from water

Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

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