Synthetic “smart” membranes, able to adjust their pore sizes, from 1to50μm, depending on the physical and/or chemical environment, are presented. Their oscillatory behavior, resembling that of many living systems, is accurately reproduced by a model based on the two competing phenomena in the membrane: elastic forces and steric interactions.
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