Oil/water separation is an interfacial challenge, and novel materials designed to possess special wettability have different interaction and affinity for oil and water, thus can realize the separation ...

Coating a mesh net in titanium dioxide can help filter dirty fog molecules. It’s relatively easy to collect water via harvesting fog—in fact, only a few square meters of meshing can collect upwards of ...

A mesh with a high-tech coating captures oil while water passes right through. With further development of this technology, the researchers say, "you could potentially catch an oil spill with a net." ...