Affiliation:
1. Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Bubbles are present in a large variety of emerging applications, from advanced nanomaterials to solar geoengineering (global warming inhibition) and biomedicine (drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier). IMET RAS is developing the conceptually new diffusion-bubbling membranes with fast combined mass transport and theoretically infinite selectivity, where bubbles act as oxygen carriers. This review covers the latest deve-lopments in oxygen mass transport and bubble nucleation and dynamics in innovative core-shell structured diffusion-bubbling membranes. The directions for future research are indicated. A high potential of diffusion-bubbling membranes for efficient oxygen separation from air is noted.
Publisher
The Russian Academy of Sciences