Abstract
An artificial gill is a device for the uptake of oxygen from water to air through a gas permeable membrane, driven by an oxygen partial pressure difference between the water and air. It enables humans to breathe under water, thereby extending the time that can be spent underwater, whether in scuba diving, sea rescue, sea exploration, or in a sea-bed city. It could help to achieve the dream of swimming like fish and living in the sea. In the earliest studies, Ayres (1966) developed an artificial gill using a gas permeable membrane. Bodell (1965) has reported a gas transfer apparatus with coils of capillary tubes made of silicone rubber that was able to sustain a rat for 25 h. Paganelli et al. (1967) designed an artificial gill consisting of a chamber covered on one end with a gas-permeable membrane.
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Nagase, K., Kohori, F., Sakai, K. (2004). Efficiency of Biological and Artificial Gills. In: Kato, N., Ayers, J., Morikawa, H. (eds) Bio-mechanisms of Swimming and Flying. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53951-3_14
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