Novel anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) nanoporous membrane for wearable hemodialysis device

Author

Khan, Kashif Ali ; Kasi, Ajab Khan ; Afzulpurkar, Nitin ; Bohez, Erik ; Tuantranont, Adisorn ; Mahaisavariya, Banchong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Technol., Asian Inst. of Technol. (AIT), Pathum Thani, Thailand

fYear

2010

Firstpage

98

Lastpage

101

Abstract

In this paper a novel structure of AAO membrane is reported. The AAO membrane was fabricated from commercial grade impure aluminum sheet. The fabricated membrane has hexagonal structure and the nanopores appeared at the bottom of that honeycomb structure. The thickness of fabricated membrane is 42.5μm. The average diameter of upper layer pore is 350nm and average diameter of lower layer pore is 50nm. The nanopores inside the fabricated membrane are highly straight and perpendicular to the surface. This two layer AAO membrane will speed up the hemodialysis process.

Keywords

aluminium compounds; biomedical equipment; biomedical materials; biomembranes; cellular biophysics; honeycomb structures; nanobiotechnology; nanofabrication; nanoporous materials; AAO membrane; Al₂O₃; anodic aluminum oxide nanoporous membrane; commercial grade impure aluminum sheet; hemodialysis processing; hexagonal structure; honeycomb structure; size 42.5 mum; wearable hemodialysis device; AAO; hard anodization; hemodialysis; mild anodization; nanoporous membrane;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Electronics (ICCE), 2010 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nha Trang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7055-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2010.5670689

Filename

5670689