Bioinspired Membranes for Water Purification

用于水净化的仿生膜

• 批准号: EP/Y001443/1
• 负责人: Matthew Derry
• 金额: $ 21.15万
• 依托单位: Aston University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY001443%2F1
• 关键词: Bioinspired; Membranes; Water; Purification

Polluted water is a complex global socioeconomic issue that affects human and animal health, and greatly impacts industries such as agriculture and fishing, recreational activities and transportation. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently estimated that contaminated water is responsible for almost 500 million deaths per year. In a wide range of applications across sectors, current filtration technologies are ineffective, relying on the specific physicochemical properties of the membrane and the target molecule(s) to be removed, and their manufacture often requires complex and expensive multi-step processes with high associated energy costs.In this project, we will develop bioinspired membranes as new solutions for water purification technologies, selectively removing contaminants with minimal energy input requirements. Utilising advanced polymer synthesis strategies, we will develop new bespoke polymers that can extract transmembrane proteins capable of moving molecules across membrane with exquisite specificity and enable their subsequent incorporation into biomimetic artificial membranes. This will afford water purification membranes with previously unrivalled molecular selectivity and specificity.The new membrane technology developed in this project will help to advance and evolve the landscape of membrane science. The platform materials and approaches devised will be transferrable to additional membrane filtration and water purification applications and will enable universal manufacturing processes to afford high-performance reusable, recyclable devices that can contribute to a circular economy. The need for such new systems is recognised by the UN with Sustainable Development Goal 6 on clean water and sanitation.

被污染的水是一个复杂的全球社会经济问题，影响人类和动物的健康，并极大地影响了农业和捕鱼，娱乐活动和运输等行业。世界卫生组织（WHO）最近估计，受污染的水每年造成近5亿人死亡。在各个部门的广泛应用中，当前的过滤技术无效，依靠膜的特定物理化学特性和要去除的靶分子的特定物理化学特性，并且它们的生产通常需要复杂且昂贵的多步骤，具有高关联的过程能源成本。在这个项目中，我们将开发生物启发的膜作为水净化技术的新解决方案，有选择地去除具有最小能量输入要求的污染物。利用先进的聚合物合成策略，我们将开发新的定制聚合物，这些聚合物可以提取能够以精致的特异性在膜上移动分子的跨膜蛋白，并使其随后的掺入仿生人工膜中。这将提供具有先前无与伦比的分子选择性和特异性的净水膜。该项目开发的新膜技术将有助于推进和发展膜科学的景观。设计的平台材料和方法将被转移到其他膜过滤和水净化应用中，并将使通用的制造工艺能够提供高性能可重复使用的可回收设备，从而有助于循环经济。联合国对这种新系统的需求得到了可持续发展目标6在清洁水和卫生方面的认可。