A research success in water treatment: Reports of hormones and hormone-like substances in drinking and surface waters have raised significant concerns around the world. At the IOM a polymer membrane with an adsorber surface was developed that is able to remove the hormone estradiol from water with high efficiency. The modification of a commercial microfiltration membrane led to a doubling of the adsorber capacity and suggests that the hormone is bound due to specific interactions.

Z. Niavarani, D. Breite, A. Prager, B. Abel, A. Schulze
Estradiol Removal by Adsorptive Coating of a Microfiltration Membrane
Membranes 11 (2) (2021), 99
https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes11020099

Contact: Dr. Agnes Schulze