Isoporous micro/nanoengineered membranes

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1882-1904

  Warkiani, Majid Ebrahimi ^a,b   Bhagat, Ali Asgar S ^c   Khoo, Bee Luan ^d   Han, Jongyoon ^a,e   Lim, Chwee Teck ^a,d,f   Gong, Hai Qing ^b   Fane, Anthony Gordon ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Clearbridge BioMedics Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e USA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

anodization; drug delivery; isoporous; membrane; MEMS; microfiltration; microfluidics; nanotechnology; polymer; self assembly; solid state

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MATERIALS; ANODIZATIONS; GAS SEPARATIONS; ISOPOROUS; MATERIAL SYNTHESIS; MEMBRANE FABRICATION; MEMBRANE MATERIAL; PROTEIN FILTRATIONS;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG DELIVERY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEMBRANES; MEMS; MICROFILTRATION; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEPARATION;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOENGINEERING; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROPORE FILTER; NANOPORE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POROSITY; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOENGINEERING; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROPORE FILTERS; NANOPORES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POROSITY;

EID: 84875656626     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305616k     Document Type: Review

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