Sentences with phrase «nanotube membranes»

The innovative nanotechnology uses non-biodegradable plastic grocery bags to make «carbon nanotube membranes» — highly sophisticated and expensive materials with a variety of potential advanced applications including filtration, sensing, energy storage and a range of biomedical innovations.

And carbon nanotube membranes come with other perks, Das added, including self - cleaning properties.

As a result, carbon nanotube membranes have the potential to last longer and may be reusable.

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Carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes have a bright future in addressing the world's growing need to purify water from the sea, researchers say in a study published in the journal Desalination.

Membrane filtration is considered among the most promising and widely used processes for water treatment and desalination... Carbon nanotubes (CNT) have shown great potential in water, wastewater treatment and desalination as they have many attractive key physicochemical properties with the ability to be functionalized to enhance their affinity and selectivity.»

Once these peptides find a bacterium, they nestle into its outer membrane, then shape - shift themselves into nanotubes, which act as spigots, draining the cell and killing it within minutes.

And physicist Olgica Bakajin of Hayward, Calif. — based Porifera, Inc., plans to use membranes composed of carbon nanotubes to separate CO2 from the other gases — using carbon to capture carbon.

Shnyrova et al. (p. 1433; see the Perspective by Holz) reconstituted dynamin - mediated membrane scission on lipid nanotubes and suggest a molecular model for dynamin activity that takes into consideration all known aspects of dynamin function.

The result could be useful for understanding the movement of water when squeezed inside tiny channels, for instance, in carbon nanotubes or cell membranes.

They used pieces of grocery plastic bags which were vaporized in a furnace to produce carbon layers that line the pores in the membrane to make the tiny cylinders (the carbon nanotubes).

Szempruch, a doctoral student in the biochemistry and molecular biology department, developed a 3 - D reconstruction of the nanotubes budding at the flagellum membrane.

The next step, Chen said, is to build biomimetic membranes by incorporating natural membrane proteins or other synthetic water channels such as carbon nanotubes into these sheet matrices.

They used carbon nanotube porins (CNTPs), a technology they developed earlier at LLNL, which uses carbon nanotubes embedded in the lipid membrane to mimic biological ion channel functionality.

Lawrence Livermore scientists are developing a flexible membrane with sub-5 nanometer single - walled carbon nanotube pores - a key component of protective, yet breathable fabrics.

The LLNL team fabricated flexible polymeric membranes with aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) channels as moisture conductive pores.