Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Self-assembled membrane composed of amyloid-like proteins for efficient size-selective molecular separation and dialysis

  • Facui Yang,
  • Fei Tao,
  • Chen Li,
  • Lingxiang Gao,
  • Peng Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07888-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Membrane separation is important for a range of industrial and medical applications. Here, the authors report on the formation of self-assembled protein membranes for size selective separation and demonstrate application in the separation of dyes, nanoparticles and in hemodialysis.