In order to survive, organisms must control the pressure inside them, from the single-cell level to tissues and organs. Measuring these pressures in living cells and tissues in physiological ...

Reverse osmosis is a process familiar to most plant operators. Push makeup water through the right kind of membrane with sufficient pressure (osmotic pressure) and you generate a stream with few ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper presents a general model for coupled solute and water flow through plant roots based on the thermodynamics of irreversible ...

Norwegian power company Statkraft has shelved its much-watched effort to harness energy from pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO). It said in a rare industry admission that the technology could not be ...

IN last week's NATURE, Lord Rayleigh gave, for an involatile liquid, a rigorous and clear proof of “the Central Theorem” of osmotics. But this theorem, though highly interesting in itself, is not, so ...