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This study leverages the ancient craft of weaving to prepare membranes that can effectively treat oil/water mixtures, specifically challenging nanoemulsions. Drawing inspiration from the core-shell architecture of spider silk, we have engineered fibers, the fundamental building blocks for weaving membranes, that feature a mechanically robust core for tight weaving, coupled with a CO2-responsive shell that allows for on-demand wettability adjustments. Tightly weaving these fibers produces membranes with ideal pores, achieving over 99.6% separation efficiency for nanoemulsions with droplets as small as 20 nm. They offer high flux rates, on-demand self-cleaning, and can switch between sieving oil and water nanodroplets through simple CO2/N-2 stimulation. Moreover, weaving can produce sufficiently large membranes (4800 cm(2)) to assemble a module that exhibits long-term stability and performance, surpassing state-of-the-art technologies for nanoemulsion separations, thus making industrial application a practical reality.
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SCIENCE ADVANCES
ISSN: 2375-2548
Year: 2024
Issue: 26
Volume: 10
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JCR@2022
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WoS CC Cited Count: 16
SCOPUS Cited Count: 9
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 5
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