Tethered Membrane Architectures—Design and Applications

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Membrane Biological Reactors (MBR) and Their Applications for Water Reuse

The term 'membrane bioreactor' expresses a combination of activated sludge and membrane separation processes. The need to processes like sedimentation and disinfection used in common methods is eliminated through MBR systems in a way that membranes are placed into or out of an aeration tank and the vacuumed wastewater created by the suction pump is pulled up from inside the membranes and leaves...

Membrane Biological Reactors (MBR) and Their Applications for Water Reuse

The term 'membrane bioreactor' expresses a combination of activated sludge and membrane separation processes. The need to processes like sedimentation and disinfection used in common methods is eliminated through MBR systems in a way that membranes are placed into or out of an aeration tank and the vacuumed wastewater created by the suction pump is pulled up from inside the membranes and leaves...

Designing polymer-tethered membrane-nanoparticle composites

This thesis proposes a novel design of nanoparticles for drug delivery. By tethering a bilayer membrane vesicle to a solid nanoparticle core at its center using hydrophilic soft polymers, this structure is expected to exhibit improved stability, narrowed size distribution, and a variety of functionalization possibilities. Various aspects of this design will be examined from a theoretical perspe...

DNA-based patterning of tethered membrane patches.

Solid-supported lipid bilayers are useful model systems for mimicking cellular membranes; however, the interaction of the bilayer with the surface can disrupt the function of integral membrane proteins and impede topological transformations such as membrane fusion. As a result, a variety of tethered or cushioned lipid bilayer architectures have been described, which retain the proximity to the ...