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Advances in Physical Chemistry
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 210802, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/210802
Research Article

Transport of Carbon Dioxide through a Biomimetic Membrane

Efstathios Matsaridis,1 Varban Savov,1 Alexandre Gritzkov,1 Nelie Zheleva,1 and Stoyan Gutzov2

1Faculty of Physics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, 5 James Bourchier Boulerard, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
2Faculty of Chemistry, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, 1 James Bourchier Boulerard, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria

Received 30 September 2010; Revised 15 June 2011; Accepted 5 July 2011

Academic Editor: Jan Skov Pedersen

Copyright © 2011 Efstathios Matsaridis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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