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How Does Porelio Filter Forever Chemicals From Water? - Rhea Machado (Porelio)
Rhodium costs €240,000 per kilogram — the price of a small apartment in Berlin — and today's filtration materials are often more expensive than the metals they're designed to recover. That economic paradox has kept breakthrough adsorption technology trapped in academic labs for decades, unable to scale for industrial use.
Rhea Machado, co-founder and CEO of Porelio, explains how her team cracked the production problem that has plagued functionalized ordered mesoporous silica (FOMS) materials. Originally developed for catalysis research at BasCat, the joint BASF–TU Berlin lab, these nano-scale…
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