The Story
Of Upsalite®
It all started with the impossible material at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Back in 2012, Professor Maria Strømme and her pharmaceutical research colleagues serendipitously invented a material that was previously said to be impossible, as researchers had tried for over 100 years – the first and only mesoporous (super porous) magnesium carbonate - Upsalite®.
This novel material has both a high surface area and large pore volume which enables absorption of both hydrophilic (water) and lipophilic (oil) substances simultaneously!