Tailored fibro-porous structure of electrospun polyurethane membranes, their size-dependent properties and trans-membrane glucose diffusion

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 427, Issue , 2013, Pages 207-217

  Wang, Ning ^a   Burugapalli, Krishna ^a   Song, Wenhui ^a   Halls, Justin ^a   Moussy, Francis ^a   Zheng, Yudong ^b   Ma, Yanxuan ^b   Wu, Zhentao ^c   Li, Kang ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrospinning process; Fibro porous membranes; Glucose diffusion; Selectophore polyurethane

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; APPLIED VOLTAGES; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; ELECTROSPINNING PROCESS; ELECTROSPUN MEMBRANES; ELECTROSPUNS; GLUCOSE DIFFUSION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HIGH FLUX; INTERCONNECTED POROSITY; NON-WOVEN; PERMEABILITY PROPERTIES; POLYURETHANE MEMBRANES; PORE VOLUME; POROUS STRUCTURES; SIZE EFFECTS; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; SOLVENT CAST;

DIFFUSION; ELECTROSPINNING; FIBERS; GLUCOSE; POLYURETHANES; PORE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

MEMBRANES;

GLUCOSE; POLYURETHAN; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROSPINNING; FLOW RATE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS;

EID: 84871458171     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2012.09.052     Document Type: Article

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