Products

SmartMembranes is a producer of high quality macro and nano porous alumina and silicon membranes with high ordered structures and a narrow pore size distribution

Customer's Benefit

  • high ordered honeycomb structure
  • narrow pore radius distribution
  • defined parameters of the pore stucture
    • pore diameter
    • lattice constant
    • membrane porosity
    • membrane thickness
Größenverteilung der Porendurchmesser
Beispiel der Porengrößenverteilung

Advanced Processing

  • surface modification by silanization
    specific adjustment of hydrophoby/ hydrophily of the pore walls
  • surface modification by ALD (atomic layer deposition)
    deposition of metals and metal oxides onto the pore walls
  • wetting with polymer melts
    fabrication of nano rods and nano tubes from desired polymers
  • electro chemical deposition of metals
    fabrication of metal nano rods

Applications

  • ultra and nano filtration
  • bioanalysis and separation
  • membranes for gas separation and protection against contaminations (dust, bacteria, virus etc.)
  • solid state sensors, multifunctional sensors for gases
  • lab-on-the-chip systems, diagnostics
  • micro reactors
  • catalysts
  • templates for novel nanocomposites