India, Sept. 24 -- Sumitomo Chemical has developed a technology that improves permeance while maintaining separation performance in ceramic separation membranes (microfiltration membranes). The technology uses the company's high-performance alumina developed for separation membranes (the "newly developed alumina") to increase the density of through-pores in the membrane structure.

This technology offers a new solution to a trade-off in separation membranes, in which improving permeance can reduce separation performance.

The mechanism of this technology was demonstrated through joint research with Kobe University. The findings were published online in Journal of Membrane Science Letters, a scientific journal.

The results of the study in...