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Water Management
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WATER MANAGEMENT
Plastic trash turned into a sponge that pulls water from dry air
Vienna chemists turned plastic trash into sponges that pull water from the air and release it when gently warmed, for example by sunlight. For now, this is laboratory research.
2026-10-15
WATER MANAGEMENT
Paper mill waste just solved a 40-year-old membrane problem. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before
Wentian Zhang from Sun Yat-sen University turned to alkaline lignin - a waste from paper production - and created a nanofiltration membrane that is both 3.6 times faster and 5.7 times more selective than commercial equivalents. How did waste that had been sitting in the furnace for decades solve a fundamental physical compromise?
2026-08-04