Abstract Hydrophobic metakaolin-based flat sheet membrane was developed via phase inversion and sintering technique modified through 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyltriethoxysilane grafting agents. The prepared characterized by different techniques such as XRD, FTIR, SEM, contact angle, porosity, mechanical strength. Their results indicated that the wettability, structural, properties of confirm suit...

We consider a sinusoidal undulation of a straight~ linear polymer embedded in a flat membrane exposed to a lateral tension. We determine the shape of the membrane and

Background: Considering the toxic effects of heavy metals and microbial pathogens in industrial wastewaters, it is necessary to treat metal and microbial contaminated wastewater prior to disposal in the environment. The purpose of this study is to assess the removal of heavy metals pollution and microbial contamination from a mixture of municipal and industrial wastewater using membrane biorea...

Circular domains in phase-separated lipid vesicles with symmetric leaflet composition commonly exhibit three stable morphologies: flat, dimpled, and budded. However, stable dimples (i.e., partially budded domains) present a puzzle since simple elastic theories of domain shape predict that only flat and spherical budded domains are mechanically stable in the absence of spontaneous curvature. We ...

The crawling motility of many cell types relies on lamellipodia, flat protrusions spreading on flat substrates but (on cells in suspension) also growing into three-dimensional space. Lamellipodia consist of a plasma membrane wrapped around an oriented actin filament meshwork. It is well known that the actin density is controlled by coordinated polymerization, branching, and capping processes, b...

background: considering the toxic effects of heavy metals and microbial pathogens in industrial wastewaters, it is necessary to treat metal and microbial contaminated wastewater prior to disposal in the environment. the purpose of this study is to assess the removal of heavy metals pollution and microbial contamination from a mixture of municipal and industrial wastewater using membrane bioreac...

Concentrat ion polarisation, decreasing the efficiency in membrane separation processes, can be reduced by increasing mass t ransfer between membrane surface and bulk of the feed stream. Analogous to techniques used in plate heat exchangers efforts have been made to enhance mass t ransfer in a plate hyperfiltration module by using a corrugated membrane in stead of a flat one. The corrugations a...

The endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT) machinery functions in HIV-1 budding, cytokinesis, multivesicular body biogenesis, and other pathways, in the course of which it interacts with concave membrane necks and bud rims. To test the role of membrane shape in regulating ESCRT assembly, we nanofabricated templates for invaginated supported lipid bilayers. The assembly of th...