in the chemical industry, process intensification is needed to meet important goals such as sustainable and eco-friendly processes. for esterification reaction the “produce more with less pollution” objective can be achieved by coupling reaction and separation in a so called integrated process. in this work a model for describing the esterification reaction of ethyl acetate in pervaporation mem...

Polymeric membrane ion-selective electrodes (ISEs) have become attractive tools for trace-level environmental and biological measurements. However, applications of such ISEs are often limited to measurements with low levels of electrolyte background. This paper describes an asymmetric membrane rotating ISE configuration for trace-level potentiometric detection with a high-interfering background...

Electron micrographs of light sarcoplasmic vesicles fixed with glutaraldehyde and osmium tetroxide followed by contrasting with uranyl acetate and lead citrate have been evaluated by registering their membrane profiles with a microdensitometer. The asymmetric arrangement of the two layers of the vesicular membrane could be ascertained by demonstrating a ratio of 1.5 for the thickness of the out...

integrally skinned asymmetric membranes based on nanocompositepolyethersulfone were prepared by the phase separation process using the supercritical co2 as a nonsolvent for the polymer solution. in present study, the effects of temperature and nanoparticle on selectivity performance and permeability of gases has beeninvestigated. it is shown that the presence of silica nanoparticles not only di...

Regenerative Fuel Cell (RFC) systems are used for the enhancement of sustainable energy aspect in conventional fuel cells. In this study, a photovoltaic-electrolyzer-fuel cell integrated cycle has been presented. The proposed system has been designed as a novel approach for alleviating the restrictions  on energy streams in the RFC systems. Modeling of the system has been performed from the mas...

As an important subclass of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), homochiral MOFs show special ability of asymmetric catalysis and enantioselective separation via the open chiral channels or cavities. A new homochiral MOF membrane [Ni2(mal)2(bpy)]•2H2O (Ni-MB) was synthesized by a secondary growth technique, in which high energy ball milling was employed to prepare nanosized MOF seeds, and their syn...

Purified Signal Recognition Protein (SRP) has previously been shown to be required for the translocation of secretory proteins across the microsomal membrane (Walter and Blobel, 1980 . Proc. Nat/ . Acad. Sci. U . S. A. 77:7,112-7,116) and to function in the early events of this process (Walter and Blobel, 1981. J. Cell Biol . 91 :557-561) . We demonstrate here that the S subunit of acetylcholin...

Lipid membrane asymmetry plays an important role in cell function and activity, being for instance a relevant signal of its integrity. The development of artificial asymmetric membranes thus represents a key challenge. In this context, an emulsion-centrifugation method is developed to prepare giant vesicles with an asymmetric membrane composed of an inner monolayer of poly(butadiene)-b-poly(eth...

Cdc42p plays a central role in asymmetric cell growth in yeast by controlling actin organization and vesicular trafficking. However, how Cdc42p is maintained specifically at the daughter cell plasma membrane during asymmetric cell growth is unclear. We have analyzed Cdc42p localization in yeast mutants defective in various stages of membrane trafficking by fluorescence microscopy and biochemica...