creator Teymour, Fouad creator Al-hallaj, Said A super absorbent polymer material is contacted with an aqueous medium to absorb at least a portion of the aqueous medium. At least portion of the aqueous medium absorbed super absorbent material is subsequently regenerated to release water therefrom and to form a regenerated super absorbent material suitable for the contacting with a second quantity of an aqueous medium. Also disclosed are layered composites including an electrically conductive metal support layer, a layer of super absorbent material disposed thereon, and a layer of a selective semi-permeable material disposed adjacent the layer of the super absorbent material and spaced apart from the electrically conductive metal support layer. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2013-10-09T18:24:09Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1089 bytes, checksum: 0a703d871bf062c5fdc7850b1496693b (MD5) 8545691.pdf: 148352 bytes, checksum: ce16fbee58c61a9117e9fa094127b77a (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-09T18:24:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1089 bytes, checksum: 0a703d871bf062c5fdc7850b1496693b (MD5) 8545691.pdf: 148352 bytes, checksum: ce16fbee58c61a9117e9fa094127b77a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-01 2013-10-09 2013-10-01 8,545,691 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3077 en CC0 1.0 Universal http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access