A complete solution for oil-spill cleanup
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 15:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists are describing what may be a "complete solution" to cleaning up oil spills—a superabsorbent material that sops up 40 times its own weight in oil and then can be shipped to an oil refinery and processed to recover the oil. Their article on the material appears in ACS' journal Energy & Fuels.