Certain aspects of the invention relate to a composite for oil-water separation, synthesis methods and applications of the same. The composite includes a nanostructured powder or porous material having surfaces with nanoscale features, formed from a pristine powder or porous material by a surface nanostructuring process, and single or multilayers of a low surface energy oligomer or polymer coated on the surfaces of the nanostructured powder or porous material. The composite is hydrophobic (or superhydrophobic) and oleophilic (or superoleophilic) operably repelling water and absorbing oil, or oleophobic (or superoleophobic) and hydrophilic (or superhydrophilic) operably repelling oil and absorbing water.

Provided are a fiber material for liquid purification, being inexpensive, capable of reducing cleaning, and suppressing the generation of fine particles, and a cleaning device including the same. The present invention relates to a nonwoven fabric base material containing a mixed resin of polyolefin and a styrene-olefin copolymer in a single fiber, which is used as a fiber material for liquid purification for removing a biotoxic substance from liquid, wherein the mass ratio of the polyolefin to the mass of the mixed resin is 10% by mass or more and 80% by mass or less and the mass ratio of all styrene residues to the mass of the styrene-olefin copolymer is 5% by mass or more and 50% by mass or less, a fiber material for liquid purification including the nonwoven fabric base material, a method for producing the material, and a cleaning device including the material.

Devices, methods, and systems for carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) sequestration using a cellulose nanofiber (CNF) aerogel, having a monolithic structure. The monolithic structure includes an aerogel matrix, a plurality of crosslinked CNFs, and a plurality of cellulose nanocrystal acetone (a-CNC) suspension particles, where the plurality of crosslinked CNFs and the plurality of a-CNC suspension particles are dispersed throughout the aerogel matrix. Systems and methods for CO.sub.2 sequestration include locating a CO.sub.2 producing process, separating, using a first membrane system, a feed stream into a mixed solid and liquid stream and a first gas stream and separating, using a second membrane system, the first gas stream to produce a second gas stream and a CO.sub.2 rich stream. Systems and methods further include directing the CO.sub.2 rich stream to a cellulose nanofiber (CNF) aerogel unit and adsorbing CO.sub.2 from the CO.sub.2 rich stream.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a porous monolith polymeric composition having utility in catalysis, chromatography, filtration, and electro-kinetic pumps, devices incorporating such composition and methods or making and using such monoliths. The monoliths are characterized by a substantially homogeneous skeletal core with little shrinkage, few voids and few channels.

Disclosed herein are several exemplary seed coating compositions, and exemplary methods for creating and using the same. Also disclosed are several exemplary seed coating manufacturing processes, and the products created by such processes. The seed coating compositions are for decreasing dusting and increasing the quality of coated seeds, and comprise an effective amount of clay mineral.

A chromatographic media for separating bio-polymers, the chromatographic media having cationic exchange properties and anionic exchange properties, the chromatographic media comprising: (a) non-porous substrate particles including an organic polymer, the substrate particles having a neutral hydrophilic layer at a surface of the non-porous substrate particles, in which the neutral hydrophilic layer is configured to reduce a binding of the bio-polymers directly to the non-porous substrate particles compared to a binding of the bio-polymer to the non-porous substrate particles without the neutral hydrophilic layer; (b) a charged first ion exchange layer bound to the substrate particles on top of the hydrophilic layer, the first ion exchange layer comprising first ion exchange groups; and (c) a charged second ion exchange layer bound to the substrate particles on top of the first ion exchange layer.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a porous monolith polymeric composition having utility in catalysis, chromatography, filtration, and electro-kinetic pumps, devices incorporating such composition and methods of making and using such monoliths. In some embodiments the monoliths can include a skeletal core having a substantially homogeneous polymeric composition of two or more organic silane monomers and pores that define an interstitial volume in the skeletal core. The pores can include macropores and less than 5% of the interstitial volume can be mesopores. Such monoliths can, in some embodiments, be disposed in a housing having at least one wall that defines a chamber such that all fluid flowing into the chamber passes through the pores of the monolith.

The present disclosure relates to a biodegradable porous bonded-grain monolithic CO2 scrubber for respiration devices. The scrubber comprises a monolithic body of bonded grains, including calcium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, lithium hydroxide, and potassium hydroxide, to act as CO2 absorbents. The body features enclosed gas passages facilitating gas flow and CO2 absorption. The grains are bonded via adhesion, powder polymer, or heat sintering, and the structure includes hydrophobic additives to reduce caustic solution formation. The scrubber can be manufactured through extrusion or additive manufacturing, with various passage shapes and sizes. The monolithic body may include biodegradable polymers for environmentally sound disposal.

A water absorbing material that is suitable for being discarded by being flushed down a flush toilet is provided. The water absorbing material includes only an organic substance containing no nutrients.

A water absorbing material that is suitable for being discarded by being flushed down a flush toilet is provided. The water absorbing material includes only an organic substance containing no nutrients.