Technology · Separation membranes
Who’s working on separation membranes?
Membranes separate gases, solvents, ions and water with less energy than distillation, and the open problems are selectivity, fouling and stability under real operating conditions. This page shows how much of that work the Helikon Research Graph holds and gives you a problem statement to run in Partner Search.
What the Helikon Research Graph holds on separation membranes
19,000+
researchers
72,000+
publications
3,100+
U.S. patents
Counts from the Helikon Research Graph on 9 October 2026; rounded down. Each figure is counted on its own, so they are not added together.
How these were counted
- Publications: papers whose title, author names or research topics match the keyword set below, the same text the Literature search reads.
- U.S. patents: granted U.S. patents whose text matches the keyword set and that carry at least one of these CPC subclasses: B01D, C02F. That is the Patents search with the CPC subclass field set.
- Researchers: people in the graph who authored a matching publication or are named inventors on a matching patent.
- Keyword set:
"separation membrane" OR "separation membranes" OR "membrane separation" OR "gas separation membrane" OR "reverse osmosis" OR "nanofiltration" OR "forward osmosis" OR "pervaporation" OR "ultrafiltration" OR "membrane distillation" OR "organic solvent nanofiltration" OR "mixed matrix membrane" OR "carbon molecular sieve membrane" OR "thin-film composite membrane" OR "desalination" OR "ion exchange membrane"
Try it on a real problem
Partner Search ranks researchers against a problem statement by what their publications, patents and profiles say. This one is ready to run; edit it to fit your project.
We need a membrane that separates propylene from propane at plant pressures without plasticizing. Looking for a group working on carbon molecular sieve or mixed-matrix membranes.Run this in Partner Search
Who’s working on this
Chemical engineering, polymer and materials groups at universities, national laboratories, and company teams in water treatment, gas processing and chemicals. Many of the same groups work across water, gas and solvent separations.
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