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.