Achieving high permeability and enhanced selectivity for Angstrom-scale separations using artificial water channel membranes

Achieving high permeability and enhanced selectivity for Angstrom-scale separations using artificial water channel membranes

Synthetic polymeric membranes used for separations suffer from permeability-selectivity trade-offs. Here the authors demonstrate how a bioinspired pillar[5]arene artificial water channel embedded in a copolymer membrane can improve selectivity while still achieving high permeability.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yue-xiao Shen, Woochul Song, D. Ryan Barden, Tingwei Ren, Chao Lang, Hasin Feroz, Codey B. Henderson, Patrick O. Saboe, Daniel Tsai, Hengjing Yan, Peter J. Butler, Guillermo C. Bazan, William A. Phillip, Robert J. Hickey, Paul S. Cremer, Harish Vashisth, Manish Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04604-y

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04604-y

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