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A decade after Deepwater Horizon, we’re still cleaning up oil spills the same way

MFNS co-founders Prof. Vinayak David and Dr. Vikas Nandwana develop new technology to cleanup phosphate from polluted water. Highlighted in major news outlets New Atlas, Anthropocene, Science daily, Daily mail, Azo cleantech, TMJ4.

OHM Sponge was found to be highly effective in cleaning up oil even under very cold conditions.

MFNS has developed a new coating for skimmer belt which dramatically improves the oil absorption capacity of the belt skimmers.

Ohmsett is a national test facility that provides independent performance testing of oil spill response solutions.

MFNS team arrives at New Jersey to test the performance of OHM Sponge in real life conditions mimicking rough sea.

MFNS team has been working towards producing large quantities of OHM Sponge via a highly scalable process. We are preparing hundreds of OHM Sponge sheets for large scale testing at OHMSETT facility.

MFNS team collaborated with a major soil remediation company to work on the cleaning oil from oil/soil/water mixture.

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

The annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade

The founder and former CEO of GCOM Software has joined a startup whose technology could change the way oil spills are cleaned up.

Human civilization has a waste problem, and it’s likely to get worse as population levels grow and a consumerist mentality becomes the global norm.

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“As long as fossil fuels are still in circulation, there will always be oil spills,” said Dravid. “We wanted to create a technology which can make cleaning oil spillages much easier and, more importantly, much cleaner and safer for the environment.”

Recent oil spills in Russia and Mauritius have shown that the industry still needs better methods for cleaning up accidents. Researchers are working on some unlikely-sounding solutions, including oil-absorbing wood chips, a solar-powered robot and a reusable sponge.

A team from Northwestern University has developed a highly porous smart sponge that can selectively soak up oil spills in water. With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in oil...

A team funded by the National Science Foundation has developed a porous OHM sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water...

The words “sponges” and “cleanup” might evoke dirty dishes and kitchen duty. But to a team of materials scientists, they are the inspiration for a way to remediate aquatic oil spills.

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

Although we've seen many materials designed for removing oil spills from water, many of them are single-use, ultimately ending up in landfills. Now, however, scientists have created an oil-absorbing sponge that can be used over and over again....

The Northwestern solution bypasses these challenges by selectively absorbing oil and leaving clean water and unaffected marine life behind. The secret lies in a nanocomposite coating...