Pervaporative desalination is an efficacious method to obtain fresh water from saline sources. High salt rejection and capacity cope with high-salt concentration solutions are important advantages of pervaporation process. To improve pervaporative performance, researches concentrate on novel membrane types. Water stable metal organic frameworks loaded membranes attract substantial attention amo...

Abstract AEMFC is an attractive alternative to PEMFCs, due the faster reaction kinetics that permits use non‐platinum‐group metal catalysts and thanks high pH of electrolyte allows less expensive hardware. In any case, alkaline exchange polymeric membrane as requires development optimization electrode structures MEA. this work, MEAs, based on FAA3‐50 commercial membrane, were developed electroc...

Formalism leading to more general form of the Kedem-Katchalsky equation describing osmotic membrane transport, considering local unhomogenity of solutions called concentration boundary layers and influence of gravitational factor on membrane transport kinetics was presented. In order to test this formalism, osmotic volume flux was calculated, on the basis of experimental membrane transport para...

Polymeric membranes for preferential CO2 separation over H2 have been investigated in this project, which can be applicable, for example, in an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant with CO2 capture and storage (CCS). Poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers have been employed as an effective agent for preferential CO2 separation in this project. Although PAMAM dendrimer containing mem...

We have studied the effects of brefeldin A (BFA) on the polarized delivery of the polymeric immunoglobulin receptor to the basolateral surface of MDCK cells. Unlike the delivery of several other basolateral membrane and secretory proteins, the delivery of the polymeric immunoglobulin receptor from the trans-Golgi network to the cell surface was inhibited by BFA. The effect of BFA treatment was ...

The Ångström-scale transport characteristics of water and six different solutes, methanol, ethanol, 2propanol, urea, Na+, and Cl-, were studied for a polymeric reverse osmosis (RO) membrane, FT-30, using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations. Results indicate that water transport increases with an increasing fraction of percolated free volume, or water-accessible open space, in ...

Enzyme surface concentration and permeate stream obtained in the membrane module with a dynamically formed biocatalyst layer were determined experimentally using two different, polymeric membranes. Correlations were formulated to calculate these values. It was found that their variability range was so big that when controlling the transmembrane pressure and turbulence of a retentate stream, the...

Rectification of the ionic current flowing through nanotubes embedded in a polymeric membrane is achieved by selective adsorption of polycations to the nanotubes' mouths. A one-dimensional model of ionic flux through a nanotube with charged entrance regions qualitatively describes current-voltage curves before and after polycation exposure; reversal potential measurements confirm that charge re...

Significant strides have been made during the past 20 years in our understanding of protein secretion across the bacterial inner membrane. Specialized chaperones select secretory polypeptide chains and usher them to a membrane-embedded preprotein translocase. This unique molecular machine envelops the polymeric substrate and migrates along its length in defined, energy-dependent steps. Conseque...

In this investigation, two methods for characterizing membrane surface potential are investigated. Results from atomic force microscopy (AFM) analyses are compared with streaming potential measurements. In calculating surface potential from AFM force measurements, assumptions of constant charge and constant potential were both considered for modeling electrostatic interactions. For a ceramic mi...