Artificial sodium-selective ionic device based on crown-ether crystals with subnanometer pores

Tingyan Ye; Gaolei Hou; Wen Li; Chaofeng Wang; Kangyan Yi; Nannan Liu; Jian Liu; Shaoming Huang; Jun Gao

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25597-1

Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Artificial sodium-selective ionic device based on crown-ether crystals with subnanometer pores

Tingyan Ye,
Gaolei Hou,
Wen Li,
Chaofeng Wang,
Kangyan Yi,
Nannan Liu,
Jian Liu,
Shaoming Huang,
Jun Gao

Affiliations

Tingyan Ye: Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province, College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University
Gaolei Hou: KU Leuven, Quantum Solid-State Physics section, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Wen Li: Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province, College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University
Chaofeng Wang: Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province, College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University
Kangyan Yi: Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province, College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University
Nannan Liu: Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials of Zhejiang Province, College of Chemistry & Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University
Jian Liu: College of Material Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology
Shaoming Huang: School of Materials and Energy, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Materials and Energy Storage Devices, Guangdong University of Technology
Jun Gao: Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25597-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Artificial sodium channels open up the way to new separation technologies but remains highly challenging. In this work, the authors report an artificial sodium-selective ionic device, built on porous crown-ether crystals with a sodium ion selectivity against calcium ions exceeding that one of biological ion channel counterparts.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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