A membrane for fluid transfer includes a base membrane and a pattern, that covers a working area of a surface thereof, formed of a compatible material. The pattern has periodicity and/or amplitude that do not exceed 1 micrometer. A method of filtering a component from a solution includes passing the solution comprising the component through a membrane that includes a base membrane. The base membrane and a pattern that covers a working area of a surface thereof are formed of materials compatible with the solution. The pattern has periodicity and/or amplitude that do not exceed 1 micrometer, and reduces mass transfer of surface-accumulative soluble and/or suspended species and particulates from the solution to the membrane while the solution is passed through the membrane. A method of producing a membrane for fluid transfer includes forming a nanoscale pattern over a working area of a polymer membrane.

A filter medium is provided. A filter medium according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a fiber web layer of a three-dimensional network structure including nanofiber; and a hydrophilic coating layer which covers at least a part of the outer surface of the nanofiber. According to this, a flow rate can be remarkably increased due to the improved hydrophilicity of the filter medium. Also, as the improved hydrophilicity is maintained for a long period of time, the lifespan can be remarkably prolonged. Furthermore, since the modification of a porous structure of the filter medium is minimized during the process of hydrophilization so that the initially designed physical properties of the filter medium can be exhibited in its entirety, the filter medium having chemical resistance, excellent water permeability and durability can be variously applied in the water treatment field.

Provided is a blood processing filter comprising a container having two spouts serving as an inlet for a liquid to be processed and an outlet for the processed liquid, and a filtration medium contained in the container, the filtration medium comprising a filter material having different CWST values for one surface A and the other surface B.

A manufacturing method of a meltblown fiber membrane includes the following step. A meltblown film is made to pass between a first pressing roller and a second pressing roller, such that a calendering process is performed on the meltblown film, in which the meltblown film includes a plurality of meltblown fibers, each of the meltblown fibers includes a high-fluidity polyester and a modified polyester, a melt index of the high-fluidity polyester under a temperature of 230? C. ranges from 350 g/10 min to 550 g/10 min, a melt index of the modified polyester under a temperature of 230? C. ranges from 200 g/10 min to 400 g/10 min, and a roller temperature of each of the first pressing roller and the second pressing roller ranges from 100? C. to 155? C.

A process for manufacturing a fluidic element, which consists in forming at least one fluid-permeable zone and one fluid-impermeable zone in a three-dimensional cellular material, by addition of at least one second material having a liquid initial state. The process will for example include soaking of the cellular material by the second material present in the liquid initial state, evacuating the second material present in its liquid initial state from at least one zone of the cellular material, in order to render the permeable zone.

A stable high performance facilitated transport membrane comprising an asymmetric integrally-skinned polymeric membrane wherein the pores on the relatively porous, thin, dense skin layer of the membrane comprises a hydrophilic polymer such as chitosan or sodium alginate, a metal salt such as silver nitrate, or a mixture of a metal salt such as silver nitrate and hydrogen peroxide and the asymmetric integrally-skinned polymeric membrane comprises a relatively porous, thin, dense skin layer as characterized by a CO.sub.2 permeance of at least 200 GPU and a CO.sub.2 over CH.sub.4 selectivity between 1.1 and 10 at 50? C. under 50-1000 psig, 10% CO.sub.2/90% CH.sub.4 mixed gas feed pressure. The present invention further includes a method of making these membranes and their use for olefin/paraffin separations, particularly for propylene/propane and ethylene/ethane separations.

The invention is an improved method of making a carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membrane in which a polyimide precursor polymer is pyrolyzed to form a carbon molecular sieve membrane by heating, in a furnace, said polyimide precursor polymer to a final pyrolysis temperature of 600 C to 700 C at a pyrolysis heating rate of 3 to 7 C/minute from 400 C to the final pyrolysis temperature, the final pyrolysis temperature being held for a pyrolysis time of at most 60 minutes in a non-oxidizing atmosphere. In a particular embodiment, the cooling rate from the pyrolysis temperature is accelerated by methods to remove heat. The CMS membranes have shown an improved combination of selectivity and permeance as well as being particularly suitable to separate gases in gas streams such methane from natural gas, oxygen from air and ethylene or propylene from light hydrocarbon streams.

A pervaporation membrane formed from a series of vinyl addition block polymers derived from functionalized norbornene monomers are disclosed and claimed. Also disclosed are the fabrication of membranes which exhibit unique separation properties, and their use in the separation of organic volatiles from biomass and/or organic waste, including butanol, phenol, and the like.

A gas separation membrane includes a first layer and a second layer that is provided at the surface on one side of the first layer and that includes a compound having gas separation ability. The average thickness of the second layer is smaller than an average thickness of the first layer. The second layer is an inkjet coating. The compound preferably includes a structure derived from PET, POM, PLA, PDMS, cellulose, or a coupling agent.

Magnesium ion selective electrode membranes and the preparation thereof. The membranes are rendered highly selective for magnesium ions by the addition of acidic groups to the preferably PVC membrane, either by introducing a lipophilic compound comprising an acidic group covalently linked to a C4-C18 alkyl-substituted phenyl group (e.g. bis-4-octylphenyl phosphoric acid) into the membrane comprising the magnesium selective ionophore (e.g. a neutral ionophore 1,10-phenanthroline derivative) or by covalently linking an acidic (e.g. a carboxylic) group to the ionophore (e.g. a 1,10-phenanthroline derivative).