Aquaporin-like water transport in nanoporous crystalline layered carbon nitride
Fabrizia Foglia, Adam J. Clancy, Jasper Berry‐Gair, Karolina Lisowska, Martin C. Wilding, Theo Suter, Thomas S. Miller, Keenan Smith, F. Demmel, Markus Appel, Victoria García Sakai, Andrea Sella, Christopher A. Howard, Madhusudan Tyagi, Furio Corà, Paul F. McMillan
Abstract
O through nanometer-sized voids ordered within the layers of crystalline carbon nitride with a polytriazine imide structure. The transport mechanism involves a sequence of molecular orientation reversals directed by hydrogen-bonding interactions as the neutral molecules traverse the interlayer gap and pass through the intralayer voids that show similarities with the transport of water through transmembrane aquaporin channels in biological systems. The results suggest that nanoporous layered carbon nitrides can be useful for developing high-performance membranes.