Polluted storm-water is an issue for cities, and it's often the end point for valuable minerals like phosphates. A new sponge can recover those minerals, say scientists ...

A reusable sponge that soaks up pollutants like phosphate and metals from water has been developed by Northwestern University ...

The sponge, coated with nanoparticles that have an affinity for pollutants, can collect metals like zinc and copper, as well as phosphate, and in previous iterations has successfully pulled lead from ...

The sponge, coated with nanoparticles that have an affinity for pollutants, can collect metals like zinc and copper, as well ...

The sponge, coated with nanoparticles that have an affinity for pollutants, can collect metals like zinc and copper, as well ...

Northwestern researchers created a reusable sponge that captures pollutants like phosphate, copper, and zinc from water while ...

Copper is a major industrial metal (the third most consumed in the world) that’s used to manufacture many everyday products we’ve come to depend on, such as electrical wires, motors ...

MELBOURNE/LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on U.S. copper and aluminium imports will result in higher costs for local consumers because of a shortfall ...

A trimetallic catalyst composed of nickel, copper, and zinc nanoparticles on defective ceria (CeO 2) achieves exceptional CO 2 reduction performance, with CO productivity of 49,279 mmol g⁻¹ h ...

2020). Nanotechnology is an emerging field of biotechnology, and its application in a range of biomedical applications has been confirmed. Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) are oxidizing particles ...