Manchester spin-out that looks to revolutionise water filtration gets £500,000 funding boost

A spin-out company based at The University of Manchester that is developing a breakthrough water filtration technology, which promises to be both greener and cheaper, has secured SEED equity investment of £500,000 to help scale up. 

Molymem, with its mission to enable cleaner water supplies for the world’s growing demand, has developed an energy-efficient and highly versatile membrane coating based around a material called modified molybdenum disulphide (MoS₂) to create an innovative water filtration solution. 

The technology comes from research led by Professor Rob Dryfe and Dr Mark Bissett, at The University of Manchester, working in partnership with innovation experts at the University’s Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC).

This team has used a two-dimensional version of MoS_2, part of which is a natural crystal with physical properties that are complementary to those of graphene, the world’s first 2D material, originally isolated at The University of Manchester. See more