Membranes

Companies Membranes

Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH, Germany

Hahnemühle FineArt produces since 1584 paper and belongs to one of the oldest paper manufactures in Germany. Other than the production of traditional artist’s paper the focus today is on the manufacture of highly cultivated papers for digital printouts and to the development and production of techni more

ElringKlinger Kunststofftechnik GmbH, Germany

Innovations in high-performance plastics For over 50 years, ElringKlinger Engineered Plastics has been one of the technology leaders for seals, engineering design elements, assemblies and modules. For our customers around the world, we develop and produce individual, market-driven solutions from more

Alfa Laval Mid Europe GmbH, Germany

Alfa Laval is a leading global provider of specialized products and engineered solutions. Our equipment, systems and services are dedicated to helping customers to optimize the performance of their processes. Time and time again. We help our customers to heat, cool, separate and transport products s more

News Membranes

• Scientists make breakthrough in ion-conducting composite membranes
  

  Chinese researchers under the direction of Profs. LI Xianfeng and ZHANG Huamin from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed an ultrathin ion-conducting membrane with high selectivity and conductivity that can boost the power of flow batte more

• Chemicals from carbon dioxide – with plasma and perovskite membranes
  

  Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB and the University of Stuttgart aim to use the climate-damaging greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a raw material for the production of chemicals. To do this, they are developing a combined plasma and membrane pr more

• Sustainable solutions take center stage as Nouryon announces 2019 Imagine Chemistry winners

  Surfactants derived from plants, eco-friendly membranes, and miniature sensors were among the eight winning ideas in the 2019 Imagine Chemistry collaborative innovation challenge, organized by Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals). More than 160 submissions from 30 countries were received more

Videos Membranes

New method for making zeolite nanosheets for ultra-selective membranes

A new method to make zeolite nanosheets leads to high performance membranes for separation and purification processes. Credit: Prashant Kumar and Michael Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota more

White papers Membranes

• Analysis of water soluble polymers using linear size exclusion HPLC columns and a semi-micro SEC system
  

  One of the most widely used water-soluble polymers is Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP). For more than 70 years it is applied in a variety of applications in medicine, pharmacy, cosmetics and industrial production. PVP binds to polar molecules exceptionally more

• VACUU•LAN® Vacuum Local Area Networks
  

  In modern chemical and pharmaceutical lab buildings vacuum supply has become a standard for each work station, just as water or gas supply. Therefore vacuum supply solutions are considered at earliest stage for new laboratory buildings and are fully more

Publications Membranes

• Improved MOF nanoparticle recovery and purification using crosslinked PVDF membranes

  Crosslinked PVDF-membranes are demonstrated to offer a viable alternative for centrifugation in the preparation of MOF-particles, thus realising new opportunities at lab-scale and continuous production at large-scale. The membranes combine extreme-pH with solvent stability, thus enabling application more

• Elucidating Mysteries of Phase-Segregated Membranes: Mobile-Lipid Recruitment Facilitates Pores’ Passage to the Fluid Phase

  Phase segregation of multicomponent lipid bilayers leads to, under phase-coexistence conditions, domain formation, featuring delimitation by essentially one-dimensional borders. (Micro-)phase segregation of bilayers is proposed to influence the physiological behaviour of cell membranes and provides more

• Evaluation of Topologically Distinct Constrained Antimicrobial Peptides with Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Activity

  Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are short cationic peptides with a high affinity for membranes and emerged as a promising therapeutic approach with potential for treating infectious diseases. Chemical stabilization of short peptides proved to be a successful approach for enhancing their bio-physical p more

Authors Membranes

• Dr. Stefan Schiller
  

  Stefan M. Schiller studied chemistry at Gießen (Mainz, Germany) and the University of Massachusetts, majoring in macromolecular chemistry and biochemistry. For his doctorate in biomimetic membrane systems he worked till 2003 at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. Research positio more