Controlled Production of Elastin-like Recombinamer Polymer-Based Membranes at a Liquid–Liquid Interface by Click Chemistry

Abstract

Diffusion of organic and inorganic molecules controls most industrial and biological processes occurring at liquid phase. Even though many efforts have been devoted for the design and operation of large scale purification systems, diffusion devices with adjustable biochemical characters have remained aside. In this regard, micrometer bioinspired membranes with tunable diffusion properties have been engineered by covalent crosslinking of two elastin-like recombinamers (ELRs) at a liquid-liquid interface. The selected covalent approach provided the fabricated ELR-membranes with structural support while, modulating the concentration of the