Virus Filtration: Highly Efficient Virus Rejection with Self‐Organized Membranes Based on a Crosslinked Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystal (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 14/2017). Issue 14 (19th July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Marets, Nicolas; Kuo, Daniel; Torrey, Jason R.; Sakamoto, Takeshi; Henmi, Masahiro; Katayama, Hiroyuki; Kato, Takashi
• Is Part Of: Advanced healthcare materials. Volume 6:Issue 14(2017)
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• Publication Date: 2017-07-19
• Subjects: bicontinuous cubic phases -- liquid crystals -- membranes -- Qβ bacteriophages -- virus rejection; Biomedical materials -- Periodicals; 610.28
• DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201770070
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2192-2640

Abstract

Abstract : For the first time, liquid‐crystalline composite membrane for virus filtration in water treatment is reported by Hiroyuki Katayama, Takashi Kato, and co‐workers in article number1700252 . The self‐assembling liquid crystal forms uniform nanostructured bicontinuous cubic separation layer, minimizes the defect potentials and shows more than 99.9999% removal toward the virus. This development may spark more innovative designs for the future water treatment membrane.