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April 25, 2022Earth Day is a chance to show appreciation for our planet’s natural resources. This Earth Day we are highlighting clean water resources and wastewater treatment methods.
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April 25, 2022Earlier this month, our team suffered a terrible loss. Our Application Engineer, Steve Dulin, succumbed to his battle with cancer. He will be deeply missed by his friends and colleagues at Sterlitech, and so many others who have worked with him throughout his long career in the filtration industry.
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April 08, 2022Effective April 1, 2022 Cameo brand syringe filters have been discontinued. The product line includes the following materials, pore sizes, and diameters.
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March 11, 2022
Microplastics are small plastic particles, usually less than 5mm long, from both commercial product development and the breakdown of larger plastics. Decades after the Ocean Dumping Ban Act of 1988 was passed, it is now a major environmental concern.
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March 11, 2022You’ve just finished testing a coupon with your new Membrane Test Cell, and are ready to evaluate the performance of a different coupon to compare results. You attempt to disassemble the housing but the fasteners won’t budge. You might be thinking “oh my gall, what just happened? Well, exactly that, it’s a phenomenon known as “galling”.
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February 11, 2022As the coronavirus pandemic persists into 2022, medical experts are pressed to discover options for treating Covid-19. According to scientists at Northwestern Medicine and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, natural nanobubbles containing the ACE2 protein (evACE2) in the blood of COVID-19 patients have been found as one possible cure. In preclinical experiments, they discovered that these nanoparticles could prevent infection from a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 virus strains.
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February 11, 2022Filtration by membrane is an essential separation technique used to most commonly separate particles from liquid in a variety of applications and industries for the purpose of concentrating, recovering, or purifying. Food and beverage manufacturing, water treatment applications, biological field research, and other industries fall within this category
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February 11, 2022As of the last quarter of 2021, approximately 44 countries from around the world have banned animal testing. Every European Union country, Australia, Colombia, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and a number of Brazilian states are among them. As more governments outlaw practices of animal testing, is there another option that could be used as alternative?
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February 04, 2022The aluminum oxide (AO) membrane filters are extremely brittle and will fracture if subjected to bending. Great care must be used when handling and placing the filters. They cannot be handled using fingers. They must be handled with smooth membrane tweezers or with vacuum tweezers, such as SPI 00016-AB or similar. When choosing vacuum tweezers, make sure to select one that apply continuous vacuum with an electrically powered motor. Continuous vacuum is required since the AO membrane is permeable and will have some small airflow. Don't bother trying the cheap vacuum tweezers that use squeeze bulbs to create vacuum; they won't work.
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January 17, 2022At the beginning of each year, we take a look back on the most popular blog posts from the previous year. This year, we’re highlighting the most popular over the past 20 years!
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