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Membrane Technologies for Sensing and Biosensing

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Membranes are ubiquitous in life encapsulating and regulating the content of all cells and have pervaded society, from large-scale industrial such as seawater desalination to medical applications such as haemodialysis.

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Reddy, S.M. (2017). Membrane Technologies for Sensing and Biosensing. In: Cesar Paixão, T., Reddy, S. (eds) Materials for Chemical Sensing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47835-7_4

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