Stimuli-Responsive Membranes for Separations

Synthetic membranes are increasingly being used for a varied range of applications, in industry, medicine, agriculture, environmental sciences, geoengineering, and medical diagnostics, to name just a few. In the chemical industry, membranes are more commonly used in separation processes. Such separations are usually carried out based on one of two basic working principles, i.e., relative permeability and relative sorption. Between the two, …