Ultrafast ion sieving using nanoporous polymeric membranes

Pengfei Wang; Mao Wang; Feng Liu; Siyuan Ding; Xue Wang; Guanghua Du; Jie Liu; Pavel Apel; Patrick Kluth; Christina Trautmann; Yugang Wang

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-02941-6

Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Ultrafast ion sieving using nanoporous polymeric membranes

Pengfei Wang,
Mao Wang,
Feng Liu,
Siyuan Ding,
Xue Wang,
Guanghua Du,
Jie Liu,
Pavel Apel,
Patrick Kluth,
Christina Trautmann,
Yugang Wang

Affiliations

Pengfei Wang: State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University
Mao Wang: State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University
Feng Liu: State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University
Siyuan Ding: State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University
Xue Wang: State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University
Guanghua Du: Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jie Liu: Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pavel Apel: Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Patrick Kluth: Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University
Christina Trautmann: GSI Helmholtzzentrum and Technische Universität Darmstadt
Yugang Wang: State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02941-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Nanoporous membranes show great potential for ionic separations, but the typical trade-off between permeability and selectivity hinders their applicability. Here the authors fabricate nanoporous polymeric membranes with a high density of 0.5 nm pores and demonstrate their exceptional performance for ion sieving.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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