title: Self-standing mesoporous membranes toward highly selective molecular transportation.
abstract: Self-standing mesoporous membranes are prepared by full infiltration of ordered mesoporous silica precursors into textural macrospaces of frequently used cellulose membrane filters. We succeed in fabricating composite membranes that hardly contained large cracks/voids under the optimized conditions, realizing highly size-selective rapid transportation of biomolecules by their uniformity. Biomolecules with different sizes are precisely separated at the nanometer-level by using the mesoporous membranes.
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Yusuke.Yamauchi@nims.go.jp.
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
authors.forename: Tatsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kimura