{"id":118171,"date":"2021-01-08T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/fast-transport-in-carbon-nanotube-membranes-could-advance-human-health"},"modified":"2021-01-08T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:22:33","slug":"fast-transport-in-carbon-nanotube-membranes-could-advance-human-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/fast-transport-in-carbon-nanotube-membranes-could-advance-human-health","title":{"rendered":"Fast transport in carbon nanotube membranes could advance human health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fast-transport-in-carbon-nanotube-membranes-could-advance-human-health.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered that carbon nanotube membrane pores could enable ultra-rapid dialysis processes that would greatly reduce treatment time for hemodialysis patients.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to separate molecular constituents in complex solutions is crucial to many biological and man-made processes. One way is via the application of a concentration gradient across a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/porous+membrane\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">porous membrane<\/a>. This drives ions or molecules smaller than the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/pore\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pore<\/a> diameters from one side of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/membrane\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">membrane<\/a> to the other while blocking anything that is too large to fit through the pores.<\/p>\n<p>In nature, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biological+membranes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biological membranes<\/a> such as those in the kidney or liver can perform complex filtrations while still maintaining high throughput. Synthetic membranes, however, often struggle with a well-known trade-off between selectivity and permeability. The same <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/material+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">material properties<\/a> that dictate what can and cannot pass through the membrane inevitably reduce the rate at which filtration can occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered that carbon nanotube membrane pores could enable ultra-rapid dialysis processes that would greatly reduce treatment time for hemodialysis patients. The ability to separate molecular constituents in complex solutions is crucial to many biological and man-made processes. One way is via the application of a concentration gradient across [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}