Self-assembled isoporous block copolymer membranes with tuned pore sizes

by H. Yu, X. Qiu, S.P. Nunes, K.-V. Peinemann
Year: 2014 ISSN: DOI: 10.1002/anie.201404491

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Self-assembled isoporous block copolymer membranes with tuned pore sizes
H. Yu, X. Qiu, S.P. Nunes, K.-V. Peinemann
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Volume 53, Issue 38, pp. 10072–10076, (2014)

Abstract

Pub_2014_SAI

The combination of nonsolvent-induced phase separation and the self-assembly of block copolymers can lead to asymmetric membranes with a thin highly ordered isoporous skin layer. The effective pore size of such membranes is usually larger than 15 nm. We reduced the pore size of these membranes by electroless gold deposition. We demonstrate that the pore sizes can be controlled precisely between 3 and 20 nm leading to a tunable sharp size discrimination in filtration processes. Besides fractionation of nanoparticles and biomaterials, controlled drug delivery is an attractive potential application.

Keywords

Block copolymers Drug release Gold deposition Membranes Self-assembly