ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Cell-inspired high-performance membranes
Membranes are applied in many industrial processes and their performance has significant energetic and economic impact. Improving this performance is therefore crucial to meet sustainability goals. Traditional synthetic membranes face a critical trade-off between permeability (speed of separation) and selectivity (precision of separation) which limits their capabilities. Biological membranes, instead, achieve both high selectivity and permeability through the combination of a molecularly thin barrier and specialized transport proteins, yet are too fragile and small for industrial use. Several efforts have been paid to mimic the design of cellular membranes, but the results lack of either…
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