Rice team vying for $1 million Solar Desalination Prize
A Rice team's clever design uses the power of the sun to make fresh water from saltwater, even at night.
Rice team vying for $1 million Solar Desalination Prize
A Rice team's clever design uses the power of the sun to make fresh water from saltwater, even at night.
Industrial-strength brine, meet your kryptonite
A thin coating of the 2D nanomaterial hexagonal boron nitride is the key ingredient in a cost-effective technology developed by Rice University engineers for desalinating industrial-strength brine.
NSF renews Rice-based NEWT Center for water treatment
The National Science Foundation renews the Rice-based Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center for five years. The Engineering Research Center is dedicated to enabling access to clean water around the world.
Better wastewater treatment? It’s a wrap
A shield of graphene helps particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the free-floating genes in wastewater treatment plants.
Boron nitride destroys PFAS 'forever' chemicals PFOA, GenX
Rice chemical engineers discovered a photocatalyst that can destroy 99% of the “forever” chemical PFOA
Water-splitting module a source of perpetual energy
Rice University researchers have integrated high-efficiency solar cells and electrode catalysts into an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel.
Rice engineers: Make wastewater drinkable again
Delivering water to city dwellers can become far more efficient, according to Rice University researchers who say it should involve a healthy level of recycled wastewater.
Rice researchers look to ‘trap and zap’ coronavirus
Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their “trap and zap” wastewater-treatment technology to capture and deactivate the virus that causes COVID-19.
New nano strategy fights superbugs
Rice researchers imprint carbon nitride nanosheets to catch and kill free-floating antibiotic resistant genes found in secondary effluent produced by wastewater treatment plants. The strategy would prevent the DNA molecules from making downstream bacteria more resistant to drugs.
Rice engineers find a way to turn water pollution into valuable chemicals
Rice University researchers have identified a simpler way to rid water of cancer-causing pollutants and turn them into valuable chemicals.