An isoporous membrane with strictly controlled pore size, shape and distribution could provide an efficient,
precise and mild sieving of particles in nanotechnology and biomedical applications. However there is a lack
of highly porous polymeric membranes combining isoporosity and high permeance in the range below
500 nm. Track-etched membranes are practically the only commercial option. Membranes prepared by
phase inversion typically have a broad pore size distribution. Most nanofabrication methods have limited
the preparation of membranes with pores in the micrometer range. In this work, we present
a nanotechnology-based fabrication methodology to manufacture a stable and flexible nanoporous
polymeric membrane with 300 nm isopores using UV nanoimprint lithography. The highly porous
membrane has a pore density of 4x109 pores per cm2 and stable permeance of 108 000 L m2/h/bar . Uniform ZIF-8 nanoparticles were synthesized and the isoporous membrane successfully
demonstrated as high as 100% rejection and size-based sieving performance of nanoparticles.