Membrane potential and permselectivity are critical parameters for a variety of electrochemically-driven separation and energy technologies. An electric potential is developed when a membrane separates electrolyte solutions of different concentrations, and a permselective membrane allows specific species to be transported while restricting the passage of other species. Ion exchange membranes ar...

Amperometric biosensors are often coated with a polymeric permselective film to avoid electroactive interference by reducing agents present in the target medium. Phenylenediamine and phenol monomers are commonly used to form these permselective films in the design of microsensors and biosensors. This paper aims to evaluate the permselectivity, stability and lifetime of polymers electrosynthesiz...

Electrode potential measurements have been applied to study electrical characteristics like transport numbers, permselectivity & fixed charge density of ion-exchange membranes. Membrane potential measurements were made across zirconium phosphotungstate cation-exchange membrane maintained at 27◦C, using halide salts of alkali & alkaline earth metals as electrolytes. The effect of concentration o...

Recent advances in membrane-based separations include chiral separations, nanofiltration, ion-permselectivity, gas separation and pervaporation. Novel chiral separations using enzymes and chiral surfactants as carrier have been achieved using facilitated-transport membranes. Graft-copolymeric membranes have been constructed that possess pH-controlled ion selectivity, and membranes have been mad...

L-Phenylalanine (L-Phe) and D-Phenylalanine (D-Phe) imprinted poly [(acrylonitrile)-co-(acrylic acid)] membranes were prepared by wet phase inversion method for chiral separation. The chiral separation ability of molecularly imprinted copolymer membranes towards the underivatized D,L-Phe aqueous mixture was evaluated by ultrafiltration experiment. The novel membranes show continuous permselecti...

Fabricating crosslinked radiation-grafted anion-exchange membranes using a diamine in the amination synthesis step leads to better permselectivity-resistance balance compared use of divinylbenzene grafting step.

This polymer is characterized by relatively high gas permeability, (Р(О2)=800 Barrer, Р(СО2)=4350 Barrer). It is interesting that for the series of gaseous alkanes С1-С4 permeability increases when the size of the penetrant increases and reaches the value Р(С4Н10)=17500 Barrer (at 1 atm). It is also noteworthy that this polymer keeps high permselectivity in separation of the mixture butane/meth...

Sangalli F, Carrara F, Gaspari F, Corna D, Zoja C, Botti L, Remuzzi G, Remuzzi A. Effect of ACE inhibition on glomerular permselectivity and tubular albumin concentration in the renal ablation model. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 300: F1291–F1300, 2011. First published March 30, 2011; doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00656.2010.— Despite the central role of tubular plasma proteins that characterize progressiv...