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Photo: Elia Kneiriemen/J-WAFS
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Members of the research team (left to right:) Zi Hao Foo, Omar Labban, Grace Goon, and Annetoinette Figueroa.
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Mechanical engineering professors John Lienhard and Xuanhe Zhao teamed up to combine their expertise in desalination and soft materials.
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Filtration membranes are critical to a wide variety of industries around the world. Made of materials as varied as cellulose, graphene, and nylon, they serve as the barriers that turn seawater into drinking water, separate and process milk and dairy products, and pull contaminants from wastewater. They serve as an essential technology to these and other industries but are plagued with an Achilles heel: fouling.