A team of chemists and engineers in China has developed a new, efficient way to separate oil and water mixtures. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they developed ...

Separating mixtures into their constituent substances ... Adding further, he says, "The developed techniques exhibit excellent potential for preparing various IL-immobilized siloxane membranes." ...

Different methods are used to separate different mixtures. The method chosen depends upon the properties of the components of the mixture.

As the solvent soaks up the paper, it carries the mixtures with it. Different components of the mixture will move at different rates. This separates the mixture out.

In spite of these encouraging results, however, the separation of a biopolymer mixture cannot be fast enough. In our opinion, the main obstacle to using similar flow rates in displacement and ...