From left, researchers Syed Islam and Ramesh Bhave discuss the nickel sulfate recovered from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries using the membrane solvent extraction process they co-invented at ORNL. A ...

"Hypersaline brine" is industrial waste-water with salt levels that exceed even that of seawater. It's a big, expensive, destructive problem which a team of engineers at Columbia University in New ...

Issuance of U.S. Patent No. 10,851,077 covering methods for extracting and concentrating cannabinoids using ultrasound-enhanced solvent extraction bolsters World Class' intellectual patent portfolio ...

Menachem Elimelech, the Nancy and Clint Carlson Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Photo credit: Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University). In the race to meet the growing global demand for ...

Demand for lithium is rising fast as electric vehicles, wind turbines, and grid-scale batteries multiply worldwide. But extracting the metal remains slow, water-intensive, and limited to a few ...

Natural product extraction is a crucial process in the fields of chemistry, biology, and pharmaceuticals. It involves isolating bioactive compounds from plants, animals, and other natural sources to ...