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Virus Filtration: Highly Efficient Virus Rejection with Self‐Organized Membranes Based on a Crosslinked Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystal (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 14/2017)
Author(s) -
Marets Nicolas,
Kuo Daniel,
Torrey Jason R.,
Sakamoto Takeshi,
Henmi Masahiro,
Katayama Hiroyuki,
Kato Takashi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advanced healthcare materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.288
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 2192-2659
pISSN - 2192-2640
DOI - 10.1002/adhm.201770070
Subject(s) - materials science , membrane , filtration (mathematics) , composite number , chemical engineering , liquid crystal , nanotechnology , composite material , chemistry , optoelectronics , biochemistry , statistics , mathematics , engineering
For the first time, liquid‐crystalline composite membrane for virus filtration in water treatment is reported by Hiroyuki Katayama, Takashi Kato, and co‐workers in article number 1700252 . The self‐assembling liquid crystal forms uniform nanostructured bicontinuous cubic separation layer, minimizes the defect potentials and shows more than 99.9999% removal toward the virus. This development may spark more innovative designs for the future water treatment membrane.