The company is developing nanofiber products and nanofiber filter media for new applications where sub-micron fiber diameters, high filtration efficiency, high surface area and other unique material properties add value.
Technology to quickly and efficiently remediate’s water with heavy metals and/or soil contaminated with heavy metals and restores the environment to its pre-contamination state.
In a development that could lead to new technologies for cleaning up oil spills and polluted groundwater, scientists at Rice University have shown how tiny, stick-shaped particles of metal and carbon can trap oil droplets in water by spontaneously assembling into bag-like sacs.
Results of a corporate survey by the Federal Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (BAuA) and the Association of the Chemical Industry (VCI) in Germany have been published on BAuA's website: Exposure to nanomaterials in Germany (pdf download, 237 KB).
The work doesn’t show that people exposed to nanotubes will get cancer, Donaldson and his colleagues stress. There have not yet been any studies on the effects of environmental exposure, or inhalation.
