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Gating mechanism under pressure

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Liquid-filled pores in membranes have been designed to reversibly open and close, allowing only particular fluids through at given pressures. This enables tunable and gated separations of mixtures of immiscible fluids. See Letter p.70

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Mathias Ulbricht is at the Lehrstuhl für Technische Chemie II, and the Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), Universität Duisburg-Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany.,

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Ulbricht, M. Gating mechanism under pressure. Nature 519, 41–42 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/519041a

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