The invention includes methods of reversibly tuning the effective pore size and/or solute rejection selectivity of a nanoporous lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) polymer membrane. The membranes of the invention have high levels of pore size uniformity, allowing for size discrimination separation, and may be used for separation processes such as liquid-phase separations.

Provided is a separation membrane that when used in membrane separation of a mixture of a linear hydrocarbon and a branched hydrocarbon and/or cyclic hydrocarbon of equivalent carbon number to the linear hydrocarbon, can efficiently separate the linear hydrocarbon and the branched hydrocarbon and/or cyclic hydrocarbon. The separation membrane includes a porous support and a porous separation layer disposed on the porous support and containing an MFI-type zeolite. In an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained through X-ray diffraction measurement of the porous separation layer, the intensities of diffraction peaks attributed to specific MFI-type zeolite crystal planes satisfy specific relationships.

This disclosure concerns a method of forming a porous material, comprising impregnating a porous polymer with a pore-forming agent in order to form an impregnated polymer, and at least partially carbonising the impregnated polymer at a temperature of about 150? C. to about 500? C. in order to form the porous material. The porous material is characterised by a crystallinity of about 10% to about 70% relative to the porous polymer. This disclosure also concerns the porous material thereof.

The disclosure describes a method of forming highly ordered membrane protein crystals. The forming process is done in the presence of a magnetic field to exploit the diamagnetic anisotropy of the membrane protein. Further described is a method of magnetic alignment and crystallization of membrane proteins in two-dimensional (2D) sheets for protein structural characterization and applications in functional devices. Block co-copolymers are used in alternative embodiments to assist with the crystallization process.

The present specification relates to a method for manufacturing a water-treatment membrane, a water-treatment membrane manufactured using the same, and a water-treatment module including the water-treatment membrane.

A thin film composite (TFC) forward osmosis (FO) membrane includes a porous support with surfaces having thereon a hydrophilic self-assembled monolayer. An active layer on the support is sufficiently dense to remove an ionic species from a liquid.

A gas separation membrane, characterized by having a porous support and a polyamine layer formed on the porous support, the number-average molecular weight of the polyamine constituting a part of the polyamine being 100,000-500,000.

This invention relates to methods of purifying water using graphene oxide laminates which are formed from stacks of cross-linked individual graphene oxide flakes. The laminates also comprise graphene and/or at least one cross-linking agent. The invention also relates to the laminate membranes themselves.

A spiral-wound acid gas separation membrane element (1) includes a wound body including a separation membrane (2), a feed-side channel component (3), and a permeate-side channel component (4) wound in a laminated state around a core tube (5). The core tube (5) has a group of holes for allowing communication between a permeate-side spatial portion defined by the permeate-side channel component (4) and a spatial portion inside the core tube (5), the group of holes being present on an end side of the core tube (5).

The present invention provides a method for selectively separating a straight-chain conjugated diene with high purity from a mixture containing the straight-chain conjugated diene and at least one type of straight-chain olefin. The method involves separating the straight-chain conjugated diene from the mixture containing the straight-chain conjugated diene and the straight-chain olefin using a zeolite membrane composite. The composite contains a porous support and a zeolite layer formed on the surface and in the fine pores of the support, and the zeolite contains an alkali metal cation.