A scanning electron micrograph of a PEGylated platinum-coated nanoporous alumina membrane after exposure to human platelet-rich plasma. The pores are largely free of fouling, and the membrane surface ...

Engineers found a novel path around tedious process of tunneling individual sub-nanometer pores for nanoporous membranes one by one. The team created a new method of pore generation that builds ...

Block copolymer membranes and nanoporous structures represent a rapidly evolving area in materials science, combining the inherent self-assembly properties of block copolymers with innovative ...

Explore recent research led by Prof. Amir Haji-Akbari's team, elucidating the critical impact of precise pore placement in nanoporous membranes. Their study, published in ACS Nano, challenges ...

A Vanderbilt-led research team has made a significant breakthrough in developing advanced dialysis membranes using atomically thin materials like graphene. These innovative membranes, called ...

(Nanowerk News) Nanoporous membranes have been shown to be valuable tools for filtering out impurities from water and numerous other applications. However, there’s still much work to be done in ...

Nanoporous nanomaterials are nanostructured materials comprised of a framework and a regular, highly porous structure with pores that are 100 nm or smaller. These materials generally come in two forms ...

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of crystalline porous materials in which organic building blocks are assembled with atomic precision to construct predetermined skeletons and nanopores.

Several industries require essential processes for separating mixtures into their constituent substances. Advancing research, scientists from Japan have now developed a novel, versatile, and ...