[35]. Additionally, the membranes show better flux and antifouling profile with pure
water flux enhanced from 34.24 L/m
2 h
À1 to 179.54 L/m
2 h
À1 and static water
contact angle improved from 71.5
to 45.3
. Figure 5 interprets these results for
better clarity.
The above discussion illustrates the importance and benefits of stimuli-responsive
membranes in the present-day bioprocess engineering field. These membranes not
only make the downstream processing easy, fast, and effective but also bring novelty
to the domain, which can further be used for the betterment and rise of new ideas and
processes.
Fig. 4 Schematic representation of three types of external stimuli [13] (Reproduced from
S. Darvishmanesh, X. Qian, and S. R. Wickramasinghe, Responsive membranes for advanced
separations, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 8 (2015) 98–104 with permission from
Elsevier)
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water flux enhanced from 34.24 L/m
2 h
À1 to 179.54 L/m
2 h
À1 and static water
contact angle improved from 71.5
to 45.3
. Figure 5 interprets these results for
better clarity.
The above discussion illustrates the importance and benefits of stimuli-responsive
membranes in the present-day bioprocess engineering field. These membranes not
only make the downstream processing easy, fast, and effective but also bring novelty
to the domain, which can further be used for the betterment and rise of new ideas and
processes.
Fig. 4 Schematic representation of three types of external stimuli [13] (Reproduced from
S. Darvishmanesh, X. Qian, and S. R. Wickramasinghe, Responsive membranes for advanced
separations, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 8 (2015) 98–104 with permission from
Elsevier)
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