Virus Filtration: Highly Efficient Virus Rejection with Self‐Organized Membranes Based on a Crosslinked Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystal (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 14/2017)

For the first time, liquid-crystalline composite membrane for virus filtration in water treatment is reported by Hiroyuki Katayama, Takashi Kato, and co-workers in article number 1700252. The self-assembling liquid crystal forms uniform nanostructured bicontinuous cubic separation layer, minimizes the defect potentials and shows more than 99.9999% removal toward the virus. This development may spark more innovative designs for the future water treatment membrane.