Self-Assembled Isoporous Block Copolymer Membranes with Tuned Pore Sizes

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 53; no. 38; pp. 10072 - 10076
• Main Authors: Yu, Haizhou, Qiu, Xiaoyan, Nunes, Suzana P., Peinemann, Klaus-Viktor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 15.09.2014; WILEY‐VCH Verlag; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Edition: International ed. in English
• Subjects: Biomaterials; Block copolymers; Deposition; Drug delivery systems; drug release; Electroless plating; Fractionation; Gold; gold deposition; Membranes; Pore size; Porosity; Self assembly; membranes; block copolymers; self-assembly; drug release; gold deposition

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 el...