Nanoporous SiC: A candidate semi-permeable material for biomedical applications

We have fabricated free-standing SiC nanoporous membranes in both p-type and n-type material. We showed that these membranes will permit the diffusion of proteins up to 29000 Daltons, while excluding larger proteins. By using radioactively labeled albumin, we also show that porous SiC has very low protein adsorption, comparable to the best commercially available polymer nanoporous membrane.