Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
Abstract
Polymeric membranes that contain a collection of monodisperse gold nanotubules, with inside diameters of molecular dimensions (less than 1 nanometer), were used in a simple membrane-permeation experiment to cleanly separate small molecules on the basis of molecular size. For example, when such a membrane was presented with an aqueous feed solution containing pyridine (molecular weight 79) and quinine (molecular weight 324), only the smaller pyridine molecule was transported through the nanotubules and into a receiver solution on the other side of the membrane.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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