Combining organic and inorganic materials is a fascinating strategy to produce hybrid that combine the advantages of both polymeric materials. Among various types organic–inorganic hybrids, stimuli-responsive magnetic polymer hybrids (RMPHs) are particularly promising for wide variety applications. While properties generally provided by presence nanoparticles, such as iron oxide compound brings...

The surface expansion that is induced by the lateral pressure in the brush region of lipid membranes containing grafted polymers is deduced from the scaling and mean-field theories for the polymer brush, together with the equation of state for a lipid monolayer at the equivalence pressure with fluid lipid bilayers. Depending on the length and mole fraction of the polymer lipid, the membrane exp...

New bionanocomposite proton exchange membranes were prepared from sulfonated polybenzimidazole (s-PBI) and various amounts of sulfonated ZnO/cellulose nanohybrids (ZnO/cellulose-SO3H). The use of ZnO/cellulose-SO3H compensates for the decrease in ion exchange capacity of membranes observed when non-sulfonated nano-fillers are utilized. The strong –SO3H/–SO<su...

Using of nanocomposite membranes composed of polymer and inorganic nanoparticles is a novel method to enhance gas separation performance. In this study, membranes were fabricated from polyester (PE) containing silica (SiO2) nanoparticles and gas permeation properties of the resulting membranes were investigated. Morphology of the membranes, SiO2 distribution a...

The role of lipophilic anionic and cationic additives on the potentiometric anion selectivities of polymer membrane electrodes prepared with various metalloporphyrins as anion selective ionophores is examined. The presence of lipophilic anionic sites (e.g. tetraphenylborate derivatives) is shown to enhance the non-Hofmeister anion selectivities of membranes doped with In(III) and Sn(IV) porphyr...

Abstract Mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) have been widely developed as an attractive solution to overcome the drawbacks found in most polymer membranes, such permeability-selectivity trade-off and low physicochemical stability. Numerous fillers based on inorganic, organic, hybrid materials with various structures including porous or nonporous, two-dimensional three-dimensional, used. Demanded fur...

Confinement of crystals metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) in polymers to form MOF/polymer mixed-matrix membranes (MMMs) can lead changes intra-MOF diffusion. Such diffusion were previously demonstrated for light gases, and attributed a reduction MOF framework flexibility. However, our knowledge, no direct measurements MMMs the related confinement effect on have been reported organic liquids. In t...

• High-throughput computational screening of 4738 MOFs and 296 COFs was performed. IL/MOFs have higher CH 4 /N 2 selectivities than pristine MOFs. MOF/polymer COF/polymer composites doubled the N permeabilities polymers. Separating mixture is challenging, performance existing materials still open to improvement. In this study, we examined both adsorption- membrane-based separation performances ...

Organic bioelectronics involves the connection of organic semiconductors with living organisms, organs, tissues, cells, membranes, proteins, and even small molecules. In recent years, this field has received great interest due to development all kinds devices architectures, enabling detection several relevant biomarkers, stimulation sensing cells recording electrophysiological signals, among ot...