The purpose of the present invention is to provide a composite electrolyte membrane which has excellent chemical resistance and can maintain sufficient mechanical strength even under conditions of high humidity and high pressure, which are the operating conditions for electrochemical hydrogen pumps and water electrolyzers. This composite electrolyte membrane, which is for achieving said purpose, has a composite layer obtained by combining a polyelectrolyte with a mesh woven material that satisfies (1) and (2) and comprises liquid crystal polyester fibers or polyphenylene sulfide fibers. (1): Mesh thickness (μm)/fiber diameter (μm)<2.0. (2): Opening (μm)/fiber diameter (μm)>1.0.

A method for the repair of defects in a graphene or other two-dimensional material through interfacial polymerization.

Disclosed are a ceramic membrane for water treatment using oxidation-treated SiC and a method for manufacturing the same. An object of the present invention is to manufacture a ceramic membrane for water treatment, which can be sintered at a low temperature of 1,050° C. or less, in which a SiO.sub.2 oxide layer formed during an oxidation process induces volume expansion so as to prevent defects due to the contraction of a coating layer during general sintering. The ceramic membrane for water treatment using the oxidation treated SiC includes a porous ceramic support layer; and a SiC layer formed on the porous ceramic support layer and including SiC particles on which a SiO.sub.2 oxide layer formed on a surface thereof.

In one aspect, the invention provides a protein capture membrane comprising a first side and a second side and a plurality of interstices extending contiguously from the first side to the second side, wherein the interstices are coated with a protein-reactive coating; and the porous substrate comprises nanoporous alumina or porous glass. In another aspect the invention provides a method of detecting a protein of interest in a plurality of proteins.

Methods for forming porous or nanoporous semiconductor materials are described. The methods allow for the formation of arrays pores or nanopores in semiconductor materials with advantageous pore size, spacing, pore volume, material thickness, and other aspects. Porous and nanoporous materials also are provided.

Presented is a method for using an ethyl acetate solvent to remove all or most of the asphaltenes, resins and heavy metals from crude oil. The oil is filtered to remove the precipitants and the permeate is then deasphalted oil, rich in ethyl acetate solvent. The ethyl acetate may be recovered by flashed solvent recovery system and recycled back. Filter elements are regenerated with toluene and recovered by a flashed solvent recovery system.

Filter media, filter devices and methods of making filter media are disclosed. The filter media includes a coating on at least a portion of said outer surface. The coating may be polymeric composition having a molecular chain that includes segments of non-polar groups and segments of at least one of polar groups or segments of ionic groups.

The present disclosure provides a method for extracting and recovering gold from an aqueous solution, the method including: (1) gold extraction from an aqueous solution through electrocoagulation, in which an electrocoagulation reaction is performed in an electrolytic cell to produce iron hydroxide in-situ, so as to capture gold in the aqueous solution and reduces the gold into gold nanoparticles in-situ; (2) pickling and liquefaction of the precipitated iron sludge, in which the obtained precipitate is dissolved in nitric acid to dissolve iron flocs after washing treatment; and (3) separation and recovery of gold through a nanofiltration membrane system, in which the resulting solution after pickling the precipitated iron sludge is subjected to cut-off treatment using a nanofiltration membrane to separate nano-sized elemental gold from the solution, and then the resultant is washed with water to obtain elemental gold. The extraction and recovery method of the present disclosure has characteristics of high gold extraction efficiency (up to 100%), low cost, simple process, good stability and environmental protection, and can recover high-grade elemental gold (with a comprehensive recovery rate greater than 95%). The method is of an important significance for technical guidance and practical engineering application for the extraction and recovery of gold in various gold smelting and extraction processes.

A microfluidic tissue dissociation and filtration device simultaneously filters large tissue fragments and dissociates smaller aggregates into single cells, thereby improving single cell yield and purity. The device includes an inlet coupled to a first microfluidic channel at an upstream location and a first outlet at a downstream location. A first filter membrane is interposed between the first microfluidic channel and a second microfluidic channel, wherein the second microfluidic channel is in fluidic communication with the first microfluidic channel via the first filter membrane. The first filter membrane operates under a tangential flow format. A second outlet is coupled to a downstream location of the second microfluidic channel and includes a second filter membrane interposed between the second outlet and the second microfluidic channel. The dual membrane device increased single cell numbers by at least 3-fold for different tissue types.

An isoporous membrane includes a multiblock copolymer film. The multiblock copolymer is crosslinked, and the film has a toughness of at least 50 kJ/m.sup.3 as a free-standing film when wet, as measured by integrating the area under a stress-strain curve for the film. Methods of forming isoporous membranes are also included.