When integrated into microfluidic chips, ion-selective nanoporous polymer and solid-state membranes can be used for on-chip pumping, pH actuation, analyte concentration, molecular separation, reactive mixing, and molecular sensing. They offer numerous functionalities and are hence superior to paper-based devices for point-of-care biochips, with only slightly more investment in fabrication and m...

One of the modern techniques of mixture separation is the application of liquid membranes. They reveal the ability of selective transport of mixture components in which a liquid membrane constitutes a separate phase which separates two other liquid or gas phases. This property of membranes makes them useful in the textile and food industries, in hydrometallurgy, medicine, biotechnology, environ...

Linear-scaling density functional theory simulation of methylated imogolite nanotubes (NTs) elucidates the interplay between wall-polarization, bands separation, charge-transfer excitation, and tunable electrostatics inside and outside the NT-cavity. The results suggest that integration of polarization-enhanced selective photocatalysis and chemical separation into one overall dipole-free materi...

Ion-selective electrodes (ISE) offer a practical approach for estimating ionic activities. Nonetheless, such devices are not selective, i.e., the ISE response can be affected by interfering ions other than the target one. With the aim of overcoming this problem, we propose a Bayesian nonlinear source separation method for processing the data acquired by an ISE array. The Bayesian framework perm...

This paper deals with single layer polarization independent Frequency selective surface (FSS) which acts as a triple band reject filter. The two stop bands are broad with percentage bandwidth 11.16% and 10.13% and one is narrow with 3.33% bandwidth. The band ratio is more than 1.5 and band separation is around 30-35dB. This design is investigated theoretically by ANSOFT® Designer software and p...

Background Suppression of lipid signal is a basic requirement in coronary magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) because coronary arteries are embedded in epicardial fat and signal from fat can decrease coronary vessel conspicuity. Most CMRA scans are currently performed with fat suppression techniques such as Spectral Presaturation with Inversion Recovery (SPIR). However, methods based on spect...

Organophilic membranes provide a method of recovering organic compounds by pervaporation, which exploits the selective transport of the organic phase. The main application is in the extraction of bio-alcohols from aqueous solution. The effect of membrane composition on performance in transporting alcohols and not water at improved rates is the focus of this review. In th...

In this work, separation performance of supported carbon membranes produced from Novolac Phenolic resin as the main precursor and carbon nanotubes as nanofiller were investigated for separation of CO2 from N2 and CH4. Supports were produced by carbonization of Novolac Phenolic resin-activated carbon mixture, and selective layer was coated by dip coating of prepa...

We had extracted n-caproate from bioreactor broth. Here, we introduced in-line membrane electrolysis that utilized a pH gradient between two chambers to transfer the product into undissociated n-caproic acid without chemical addition. Due to the low maximum solubility of this acid, selective phase separation occurred, allowing simple product separation into an oily liquid containing ∼90% n-capr...