Large-area, self-healing block copolymer membranes for energy conversion.

ABSTRACT: Membranes are widely used for separation processes in applications such as water desalination, batteries and dialysis, and are crucial in key sectors of our economy and society¹. The majority of technologically exploited membranes are based on solid polymers and function as passive barriers, whose transport characteristics are governed by their chemical composition and nanostructure. Although such membranes are ubiquitous, it has proved challenging to maximize selectivity and permeability independently, leading to trade-offs between these pertinent characteristics². Self-assembled biological membranes, in which barrier and transport functions are decoupled^3,4, provide the inspiration to address this problem^5,6. Here we introduce a self-assembly s

SUBMITTER: Sproncken CCM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11208134 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature