PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Liu, Yayuan AU - Chow, Chun-Man AU - Phillips, Katherine R. AU - Wang, Miao AU - Voskian, Sahag AU - Hatton, T. Alan TI - Electrochemically mediated gating membrane with dynamically controllable gas transport AID - 10.1126/sciadv.abc1741 DP - 2020 Oct 01 TA - Science Advances PG - eabc1741 VI - 6 IP - 42 4099 - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/42/eabc1741.short 4100 - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/42/eabc1741.full SO - Sci Adv2020 Oct 01; 6 AB - The regulation of mass transfer across membranes is central to a wide spectrum of applications. Despite numerous examples of stimuli-responsive membranes for liquid-phase species, this goal remains elusive for gaseous molecules. We describe a previously unexplored gas gating mechanism driven by reversible electrochemical metal deposition/dissolution on a conductive membrane, which can continuously modulate the interfacial gas permeability over two orders of magnitude with high efficiency and short response time. The gating mechanism involves neither moving parts nor dead volume and can therefore enable various engineering processes. An electrochemically mediated carbon dioxide concentrator demonstrates proof of concept by integrating the gating membranes with redox-active sorbents, where gating effectively prevented the cross-talk between feed and product gas streams for high-efficiency, directional carbon dioxide pumping. We anticipate our concept of dynamically regulating transport at gas-liquid interfaces to broadly inspire systems in fields of gas separation, miniaturized devices, multiphase reactors, and beyond.