Nanofluidic Membranes for Sustainable Energy Future

该项目旨在通过在纳米流体学方面取得根本性突破，创造一种新型的先进膜，并利用这种技术开发新的可再生能源和低能量分离技术。该项目解决了在埃尺度上理解选择性质量传递的关键挑战，从而允许开发创新的材料设计策略，以实现超快的分子和离子渗透，以及在生物细胞膜上观察到的超高选择性。这项新的跨学科研究将通过开发新材料来加速可再生氢和生物燃料的未来，并实现能源材料的可持续生产，从而使澳大利亚受益。

This project aims to create a novel class of advanced membranes by making fundamental breakthroughs in nanofluidics, and harnessing this for developing new renewable energy and low-energy separation technologies. This project addresses the key challenges in understanding selective mass transport at the angstrom scale, thereby allowing the development of innovative materials design strategies to realise the ultrafast molecular and ionic permeation, and the ultrahigh selectivities observed in biological cell membranes. This new cross-disciplinary research will benefit Australia by the development of new materials for accelerating renewable hydrogen and biofuel futures, and enabling sustainable production of energy materials.