“…Hence, the localized internal atmosphere inside the nanochannels could control the diffusion and mass transport mechanisms and thus, can be used for selective separation sciences, sensing and catalysis. Moreover, understanding and prediction of the mechanism of interaction which is responsible for the diffusion, extraction and mass transport within the nanochannels (Yamaguchi et al, 2006 and could help achieving many successful applications of confined mesoporous silica membranes such as; diffusion of biomolecules (Gargiulo et al, 2013), adsorption of organic pollutants (El-Safty et al, 2012), biosensors (Itoh et al, 2014;Hotta et al, 2012;Fan et al, 2014), gas sorption (Chalal et al, 2015) and anion detection at the liquid/liquid interface (Gao et al, 2015).…”