Track‐Etched Nanopore/Membrane: From Fundamental to Applications

By Tianji Ma, J. Janot, S. Balme. 2020

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Biomimetic and bio-inspired membranes draw great attention and generate extensive efforts to solve environmental, health, and energy issues In this field, track-etched membranes present the advantage to be tuned from a single pore to a large-scale multipore membrane On one hand, from the large-scale membrane to a single nanopore, the research becomes more fundamental, meticulous, and quantitative to describe concrete processes inside confined spaces This allows understanding the role of the surface phenomena and nanoscale effects On the other hand, working from a single pore to a multipore membrane allows perfect control of the membrane properties This ensures a promising ability for upscale from the lab findings to applications In this review, a global insight on the track-etched nanopore/membrane is taken through presentation of fabrication and functionalization methods, transport properties, and the related applications By functionalization, track-etched nanopores can be used to understand ion transport under confined spaces with high aspect ratio, to analyze single molecules, to design stimuli-responsive membranes, and to generate energy from salinity gradient and light

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Molecular Biology

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