Novarials has fabricated the world’s first flexible ceramic hollow fiber membranes by using our ceramic nanowires as building blocks.These flexible ceramic hollow fiber membranes are made of pure ceramic materials without any organic additives/binders. They are flexible/bendable with an outside diameter from 0.2 to 1.5mm and a pore size from 5nm to 500nm. With the advantages of great flexibility, small diameter, ultrahigh packing density, high filtration performance, high stability, simple fabrication, and low manufacturing cost, these flexible ceramic hollow fiber membranes will have the potential to address many tough separation and filtration challenges in a dozen of industries, e.g., water, chemical, oil, food, beverage, gas industries, etc. And also they can be used as porous support for dense membranes.
