Photoswitchable membranes based on peptide-modified nanoporous anodic alumina: toward smart membranes for on-demand
Tushar Kumeria1, Jingxian Yu2, Mohammed Alsawat1
1School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA-, 5005, Australia.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|April 10, 2015
Abstract:
A smart and reversibly photoswitchable membrane based on an azobenzene photo-switch containing peptides attached inside the pores of nanoporous anodic alumina membranes (NAAMs) is presented. The transport of molecules of interest across the photoswitchable peptide (PSP) functionalized NAAMs can be effectively controlled and manipulated as a function of the photostationary state of the azobenzene group in a PSP.


