Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Covalent organic framework nanofluidic membrane as a platform for highly sensitive bionic thermosensation

  • Pengcheng Zhang,
  • Sifan Chen,
  • Changjia Zhu,
  • Linxiao Hou,
  • Weipeng Xian,
  • Xiuhui Zuo,
  • Qinghua Zhang,
  • Lin Zhang,
  • Shengqian Ma,
  • Qi Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22141-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Efforts have been devoted to fabricating artificial membranes that can mimic biological functions but the design of a bionic thermometer remains in its infancy. Herein, the authors report a nanofluidic membrane based on an ionic covalent organic framework capable of monitoring temperature variations and expressing it in the form of continuous potential differences.