The nation’s largest oil field could also be a major water producer — if companies can figure out how to clean it. The Permian Basin, which straddles southeast New Mexico and northwest Texas, is ...

Mixtures of oil and water can be efficiently separated by pumping them into thin channels between semipermeable membranes, paving the way to cheaper and cleaner ways to deal with industrial waste.

A team of chemists and engineers in China has developed a new, efficient way to separate oil and water mixtures. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they developed ...