We have designed a porous nanofluidic desalination device, a rotating carbon nanotube membrane filter (RCNT-MF), for the reverse osmosis desalination that can turn salt water into fresh water. The concept as well as design strategy of RCNT-MF is modeled, and demonstrated by using molecular dynamics simulation. It has been shown that the RCNT-MF device may significantly improve desalination effi...

In this paper, we evaluate the strategy of using self-assembled microbeads to build a robust and tunable membrane for free-flow zone electrophoresis in a PDMS microfluidic chip. To fabricate a porous membrane as a salt bridge for free-flow zone electrophoresis, we used silica or polystyrene microbeads between 3-6 μm in diameter and packed them inside a microchannel. After complete evaporation, ...

The oxygen permeation performance of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δ (BSCF) mixed-conducting multichannel hollow fiber (MCMHF) membranes was improved by surface modification via spin-spraying of a La0.6Sr0.4CoO3−δ (LSC) porous layer. At 1173 K, the oxygen permeation flux of the modified membranes was clearly enhanced and reached 9.68 mL·cm−2·min−1, which is a remarkable high value in the field of mixe...

A plate−gap model of a porous enzyme doped electrode covered by a porous inert membrane has been proposed and analyzed. The two−dimensional−in−space mathematical model of the plate−gap biosensors is based on the reaction−diffusion equations containing a nonlinear term related to the Michaelis−Menten kinetics. Using numerical simulation of the biosensor action, the influence of the geometry of t...

In a microfluidic environment, the liquid– liquid interface, formed by laminar flows of immiscible solutions, can be used to generate thin membranes via interfacial polymerization. Because these thin nylon membranes have a very small pore size or lack porosity entirely, their utilization in some biological applications is greatly limited. We introduce an in situ fabrication method using the int...

Ceramic membrane composites consisting of a coarse porous a-alumina or two-layer porous alumina membrane support and an oxygen semipermeable gas tight thin (0.2-5 pm) yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) film are prepared by the electrochemical vapor deposition (EVD) method. The minimum gastight thickness of the YSZ films depends strongly on the average pore size of the support on which the films a...

A zeolite NaA (LTA) membrane supported by an alumina porous support tube for pervaporation (PV) dehydration of ethanol was characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) using a focused ion beam (FIB) thin-layer specimen preparation technique and by Fourier transform infrared attenuated total reflectance method (FTIR-ATR) using a diamond prism as the waveguide. FIB-TEM clearly presente...

membranes to completely remove, replace, or lower the concentration of salts or solvents from solutions containing proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules. The process selectively utilizes permeable (porous) membrane filters to separate the components of solutions and suspensions based on their molecular size. An ultrafiltration membrane retains molecules that are larger than ...

A zeolite NaA (LTA) membrane supported by an alumina porous support tube was characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared Attenuated Total Reflectance method (FTIR-ATR) with a diamond prism as the waveguide. A method using the FTIR-ATR was developed to estimate rapidly the EtOH/H2O pervaporation (PV) performance of the membrane. The Si-O asymmetric stretching vibration region of LTA membrane spe...

In this work, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate a highly sensitive polymer-cladded porous silicon (PSi) membrane waveguide based on a ~1.55 m thick porous silicon membrane coated on one side with a low loss polymer. The sensor operates in the Kretschmann configuration, which is amenable to microfluidics integration, with a high index cubic zirconium prism. The sensitivity of the ...