Physical processes in polymeric filters used for dialysis
Review article, 2019
The key physical processes in polymeric filters used for the blood purification include transport across the capillary wall and the interaction of blood cells with the polymer membrane surface. Theoretical modeling of membrane transport is an important tool which provides researchers with a quantification of the complex phenomena involved in dialysis. In the paper, we present a dense review of the most successful theoretical approaches to the description of transport across the polymeric membrane wall as well as the cell-polymer surface interaction, and refer to the corresponding experimental methods while studying these phenomena in dialyzing filters.
Dialysis
Capillary filters
Shape of red blood cells
Physical analysis of transport
Cell-polymeric surface interaction
Polymeric membranes
Author
Marina Voinova
Chalmers, Physics, Condensed Matter Theory
Nacionalnij Tehnicnij Universytet Kharkivskij Polytehnicnij Institut
Nikolay V. Repin
Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine
Evgen Sokol
Nacionalnij Tehnicnij Universytet Kharkivskij Polytehnicnij Institut
Bogdan V. Tkachuk
'Regional Medical Clinical Center of Urology and Nephrology n.a. V.I. Shapoval'
Leonid Gorelik
Chalmers, Physics, Condensed Matter Theory
Polymers
2073-4360 (eISSN)
Vol. 11 3 389Subject Categories
Biophysics
Medical Biotechnology (with a focus on Cell Biology (including Stem Cell Biology), Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry or Biopharmacy)
Other Industrial Biotechnology
DOI
10.3390/polym11030389