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

ABSTRACT: Synthetic polymer membranes, critical to diverse energy-efficient separations, are subject to permeability-selectivity trade-offs that decrease their overall efficacy. These trade-offs are due to structural variations (e.g., broad pore size distributions) in both nonporous membranes used for Angstrom-scale separations and porous membranes used for nano to micron-scale separations. Biological membranes utilize well-defined Angstrom-scale pores to provide exceptional transport properties and can be used as inspiration to overcome this trade-off. Here, we present a comprehensive demonstration of such a bioinspired approach based on pillar[5]arene artificial water channels, resulting in artificial water channel-based block copolymer membranes. These membranes have a sharp selectivity profile with a molecular weight cutoff of ~ 500 Da, a size range challenging to achieve with current membranes, while achieving a large improvement in permeability (~65 L m-2 h-1 bar-1 compared with 4-7 L m-2 h-1 bar-1) over similarly rated commercial membranes.

SUBMITTER: Shen YX

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5997692 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Shen Yue-Xiao YX Song Woochul W Barden D Ryan DR Ren Tingwei T Lang Chao C Feroz Hasin H Henderson Codey B CB Saboe Patrick O PO Tsai Daniel D Yan Hengjing H Butler Peter J PJ Bazan Guillermo C GC Phillip William A WA Hickey Robert J RJ Cremer Paul S PS Vashisth Harish H Kumar Manish M

Nature communications 20180612 1

Synthetic polymer membranes, critical to diverse energy-efficient separations, are subject to permeability-selectivity trade-offs that decrease their overall efficacy. These trade-offs are due to structural variations (e.g., broad pore size distributions) in both nonporous membranes used for Angstrom-scale separations and porous membranes used for nano to micron-scale separations. Biological membranes utilize well-defined Angstrom-scale pores to provide exceptional transport properties and can b ...[more]

PMID: 29895901

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

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