Microporous polyethersulfone membranes grafted with zwitterionic polymer brushes showing microfiltration permeance and ultrafiltration bacteriophage removal

J Qin, E Ziemann, E Bar-Zeev, SE Bone… - … applied materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Virus removal from water using microfiltration (MF) membranes is of great interest but
remains challenging owing to the membranes' mean pore sizes typically being significantly …

Data-science-based reconstruction of 3-D membrane pore structure using a single 2-D micrograph

H Chamani, A Rabbani, KP Russell, AL Zydney… - Journal of Membrane …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conventional 2-D scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is commonly used to rapidly and
qualitatively evaluate membrane pore structure. Quantitative 2-D analyses of pore sizes can …

Determination of the key structural factors affecting permeability and selectivity of PAN and PES polymeric filtration membranes using 3D FIB/SEM

H Roberge, P Moreau, E Couallier, P Abellan - Journal of Membrane …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microfiltration (MF) and ultrafiltration (UF) processes are well known in water treatment or
separation of valuable biomolecules. They have recently been adapted for microalgae …

Effect of protein fouling on filtrate flux and virus breakthrough behaviors during virus filtration process

D Suh, H **, H Park, C Lee, YH Cho… - Biotechnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Virus filtration process is used to ensure viral safety in the biopharmaceutical downstream
processes with high virus removal capacity (ie,> 4 log10). However, it is still constrained by …

High-resolution numerical simulation of microfiltration of oil-in-water emulsion permeating through a realistic membrane microporous structure generated by focused …

M Shirzadi, M Ueda, K Hada, T Fukasawa, K Fukui… - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Owing to the limitations of visualization techniques in experimental studies and low-
resolution numerical models based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the detailed …

Impact of virus filter pore size/morphology on virus retention behavior

KP Russell, AL Zydney, ED Gomez - Journal of Membrane Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Virus filters provide size-based removal of> 99.9% of viruses and virus-like particles during
biopharmaceutical processing. Here, we quantitatively evaluate the 3D pore space and virus …