Porifera Inc. was founded with the goal of developing membranes with vastly superior permeability, durability, and selectivity for water purification and other applications such as carbon sequestration. Our vision is to use carbon nanotubes to improve membrane performance, enabling affordable and plentiful fresh drinking water worldwide. Our R&D team includes scientists and engineers with over 25 years commercializing advanced materials, environmental, and membrane technologies. The company was founded in 2008 in the San Francisco Bay Area based on technology exclusively licensed from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
“Porifera” is a latin word which means “bearing pores”.
Porifera is also the name of the phylum consisting of sea sponges, animals that very efficiently filter water.
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