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Business units.(editor's page)

Publication: Florida Trend
Publication Date: 01-JUN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Imagine being able to engineer a membrane with holes so small that trying to put a human hair through one would be like pushing a condo tower through a doughnut hole. Then combine the micro-engineering with some chemistry and biology: You could, for example, adjust the size of the holes so no...

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...that milk particles would pass through but bacteria wouldn't--since bacteria are much larger than milk particles. Voila: Longer shelf life and need for the mechanical process of pasteurization.

Such micro-sieves also allow you to combine liquids that otherwise don't mix, like oil and water, into emulsions. At the microscopic level, an emulsion looks like a collection of droplets; it's conceivable, with the right kind of sieves, to create milk droplets, for example, where the outside of the droplet...

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