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Record W4406917173 · doi:10.1016/j.chroma.2025.465733

Bioseparation using membrane chromatography: Innovations, and challenges

2025· review· en· W4406917173 on OpenAlex
Guoqiang Chen, Yinhua Wan, Raja Ghosh

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Chromatography A · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicProtein purification and stability
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
FundersNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaMcMaster University
KeywordsChemistryChromatographyMembraneBiochemistry

Abstract

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The resin-based column continues to be the dominant incumbent in bioprocess chromatography. While alternative formats such as membrane-, monolith- and fiber-based chromatography are more visible than before, each still plays minor roles. The reasons for this are complex and some of these are explained in this paper. However, the fact remains that membrane chromatography has come a long way since its early days of development. The main advantage of membrane chromatography continues to be its convection dominant transport mechanism, the resultant benefit being fast and scalable separation. Also, resolution obtained with properly designed devices could be comparable or even better than resin-based chromatography. Significant progress has been made in new membrane development, membrane characterization, device design and novel applications development. A wider range of new membrane matrices, ligands, and ligand-matrix linking chemistries are now available. New membrane modules, formats, and process configurations have also helped improve membrane performance. However, some significant challenges still exist, and these need to be addressed if membrane chromatography is to become more mainstream in the field of bioprocessing. Also, membrane chromatography has significant potential for application in analytical separations and this space has hardly been explored. In this paper, the advances in the areas of membrane preparation, device design and process development are reviewed. A high-level cost analysis is presented and the role of process design in membrane chromatography is discussed.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.994
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.336
Teacher spread0.282 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it