. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 13.

Published in final edited form as: Nano Lett. 2010 Oct 13;10(10):3904–3908. doi: 10.1021/nl101602z

Table 1.

Nanoparticle sieving coefficients (C_filtrate/C₀) of an untreated and carbonized membrane

	Avg. gold colloid size measured by TEM
	6.6 nm	7.9 nm	12.7 nm

untreated
avg. dia. 20.7 nm	0.96	0.95	0.08
carbonized
avg. dia. 17.0 nm	0.68	0.22	n.d.^*

Not detectable. Concentration was less than limit of detection (< 0.05 mg/mL)