Issue 74, 2019
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Chemical Communications

Ubiquitous aluminium contamination in water and amyloid hybrid membranes as a sustainable possible solution†

Mohammad Peydayesh, ORCID logo a   Malvina Pauchard,b   Sreenath Bolisetty,ac   Francesco Stellacci ORCID logo b  and  Raffaele Mezzenga ORCID logo *ad  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
E-mail: raffaele.mezzenga@hest.ethz.ch
Tel: +41 44 632 9140

b Supramolecular Nanomaterials and Interfaces Laboratory, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

c BluAct Technologies GmbH, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

d Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract

We develop a membrane technology based on amyloid fibrils to remove aluminium from water and minimize its exposure to humans. We study aluminium adsorption by amyloid fibrils by evaluating the binding isotherms, the thermodynamics and the effects of different parameters. Amyloid-based membranes demonstrate outstanding removal efficiencies beyond 98%.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC05337A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Jul 2019
Accepted
18 Aug 2019
First published
19 Aug 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 11143-11146

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Ubiquitous aluminium contamination in water and amyloid hybrid membranes as a sustainable possible solution

M. Peydayesh, M. Pauchard, S. Bolisetty, F. Stellacci and R. Mezzenga, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 11143 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC05337A

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