Membrane processes allow scalable and energy-efficient separation of gas liquid, advance low-carbon purifications in various industrial environmental applications enable more resilient economy society. In pursuit developing advanced membranes with continuously improved separating performances, nanofillers have been commonly incorporated into to upgrade membrane properties such as mechanical rob...

We present an electroreceptor model of the A- and B-receptors of the weakly electric fish Gnathonemus petersii. The model consists of a sensory cell, whose membrane is separated into an apical and basal portions by support cells, and an afferent fiber. The apical membrane of the cell contains only leak channels, while the basal membrane contains voltage-sensitive Ca2+ channels, voltage-sensitiv...

The membrane potential and conductance of the giant muscle fiber of a barnacle (Balanus nubilus Darwin) were analyzed in relation to changes in the external (3.5-10.0) and the internal (4.7-9.6) pH, under various experimental conditions. A sharp increase in membrane conductance, associated with a large increase in conductance to Cl ions, was observed when the external pH was lowered to values b...

Ceramic−carbonate dual-phase membranes have attracted a lot of attention because of the emission of CO2 and environmental problems. In this study, a dense SrFe0.8Nb0.2O3−δ−carbonate dual-phase multichannel hollow fiber membrane has been successfully prepared via a phase inversion−sintering technique and impregnation. The morphology, crystal structure, phase stability, breaking load, and CO2 per...

The submicroscopic organization of the rod and cone synapses of the albino rabbit has been investigated with the use of the electron microscope. The most common rod synapse consists of an enlarged expansion of the rod fiber (the so called spherule) into which the dendritic postsynaptic fiber of the bipolar cell penetrates and digitates. The membrane surrounding the terminal consists of a double...

We give a theoretical treatment of the force exerted by a fluctuating membrane on a polymer rod tip, taking into account the effects of an underlying biological cytoskeleton by way of a simple harmonic dependence on displacement. We also consider theoretically and experimentally the dynamics of a growing fiber tip under the influence of such a fluctuation-induced membrane force, including the e...

Two observations placed in juxtaposition may clarify the mechanism of action of insulin. The first is that insulin in contact with intact rat muscle causes net movement of potassium from extracellular fluid into muscle. The second is concerned with the electrical potential difference across the cell membrane of resting muscle which depends in part upon the relative concentrations of potassium o...

Take the ethylene-vinyl alcohol (EVAL) copolymer as the infrastructural material, the anion exchange resin D301R as the functional grains, adopt dry-wet method to make resin-filled EVAL hollow fiber membrane, test the pure water flux of the membrane, the rejection rate of the bovine serum albumin (BSA) and the static absorption performance of BSA. Check the influences of coagulation bath temper...

Bacterial pathogens utilize the chaperone-usher pathway to assemble extracellular multi-subunit fibers essential for virulence. The periplasmic chaperone facilitates the initial folding of fiber subunits but then traps them in activated folding transition states. Chaperone dissociation releases the folding energy that drives subunit incorporation into the fiber, which grows through a pore forme...

PURPOSE The goal of this ultrastructural study was to examine fiber cell shape and intercellular junctions during the early stages of fiber cell breakdown and edema in diabetic rabbit lenses. METHODS Lens abnormalities were recorded with a slit lamp. Between 6-10 mo after drug treatment, diabetic lenses and untreated control lenses were freshly enucleated and sectioned with a vibrating knife ...