TY - JOUR
T1 - Nanofabrication of Isoporous Membranes for Cell Fractionation
AU - Sabirova, Ainur
AU - Pisig, Florencio Jr
AU - Rayapuram, Naganand
AU - Hirt, Heribert
AU - Nunes, Suzana Pereira
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The authors are thankful to Mr. Ahad A. Syed, Mr. Ulrich Buttner, Dr. Zhihong Wang and Mr. Almas Rakhymzhanov from the KAUST Core Labs for their assistance in the microfabrication. We acknowledge Mr. Heno Hwang, scientific illustrator at KAUST, who has created Figures 1 and 5.
PY - 2020/4/9
Y1 - 2020/4/9
N2 - Cell fractionations and other biological separations frequently require several steps. They could be much more effectively done by filtration, if isoporous membranes would be available with high pore density, and sharp pore size distribution in the micro- and nanoscale. We propose a combination of two scalable methods, photolithography and dry reactive ion etching, to fabricate a series of polyester membranes with isopores of size 0.7 to 50 μm and high pore density with a demonstrated total area of 38.5 cm2. The membranes have pore sizes in the micro- and submicro-range, and pore density 10-fold higher than track-etched analogues, which are the only commercially available isoporous polymeric films. Permeances of 220,000 L m-2 h-1bar-1 were measured with pore size 787 nm. The method does not require organic solvents and can be applied to many homopolymeric materials. The pore reduction from 2 to 0.7 μm was obtained by adding a step of chemical vapor deposition. The isoporous system was successfully demonstrated for the organelle fractionation of Arabidopsis homogenates and could be potentially extended to other biological fractionations.
AB - Cell fractionations and other biological separations frequently require several steps. They could be much more effectively done by filtration, if isoporous membranes would be available with high pore density, and sharp pore size distribution in the micro- and nanoscale. We propose a combination of two scalable methods, photolithography and dry reactive ion etching, to fabricate a series of polyester membranes with isopores of size 0.7 to 50 μm and high pore density with a demonstrated total area of 38.5 cm2. The membranes have pore sizes in the micro- and submicro-range, and pore density 10-fold higher than track-etched analogues, which are the only commercially available isoporous polymeric films. Permeances of 220,000 L m-2 h-1bar-1 were measured with pore size 787 nm. The method does not require organic solvents and can be applied to many homopolymeric materials. The pore reduction from 2 to 0.7 μm was obtained by adding a step of chemical vapor deposition. The isoporous system was successfully demonstrated for the organelle fractionation of Arabidopsis homogenates and could be potentially extended to other biological fractionations.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/662498
UR - http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62937-5
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083194371&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41598-020-62937-5
DO - 10.1038/s41598-020-62937-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 32273573
SN - 2045-2322
VL - 10
JO - Scientific Reports
JF - Scientific Reports
IS - 1
ER -