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January 28, 2021 A Northwestern University-led team created the “OHM sponge,” which is able to soak up 30 times its weight in oil and be...

January 10, 2021 MFNS is developing OHM membrane which can address efficient and economically viable solution to cleanup produced water.

November 18, 2020 The annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence through the publication of multiple...

October 30, 2020 The founder and former CEO of GCOM Software has joined a startup whose technology could change the way oil spills are...

October 11, 2020 Human civilization has a waste problem, and it’s likely to get worse as population levels grow and a consumerist...

October 1, 2020 BBC News Interview

September 29, 2020 “As long as fossil fuels are still in circulation, there will always be oil spills,” said Dravid. “We wanted to create...

September 1, 2020 The MFNS Team paired up with a customer who needed drop in copper remediation. Unable to utilize Ion exchange resin or...

August 30, 2020 Recent oil spills in Russia and Mauritius have shown that the industry still needs better methods for cleaning up...

June 21, 2020 A team from Northwestern University has developed a highly porous smart sponge that can selectively soak up oil spills in...

June 5, 2020 A team funded by the National Science Foundation has developed a porous OHM Sponge ® that selectively soaks up oil in...

June 3, 2020 The words “sponges” and “cleanup” might evoke dirty dishes and kitchen duty. But to a team of materials scientists, they are...

June 2, 2020 A new ‘smart sponge’ designed to clean up oil spills in the ocean has been developed at Northwestern University, Illinois in...

May 28, 2020 The Northwestern solution bypasses these challenges by selectively absorbing oil and leaving clean water and unaffected...

May 28, 2020 Although we've seen many materials designed for removing oil spills from water, many of them are single-use, ultimately...