“…Nowadays, TeMs are used as filtration membranes for water purification [ 20 , 21 ] or effective adsorbents and are commercially available. Combining the inherent advantages of TeMs and metal nanostructures provides composite membranes that are excellent candidates in a variety of promising material science applications, such as biotechnology [ 22 , 23 ], catalysis [ 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 ], medicine [ 29 , 30 ], sensors [ 21 , 31 ], and radiation resistive and magnetic materials [ 32 , 33 ]. In our previous study, we created Cu/CuO in the nanochannels and surface of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) TeMs by electroless template-assisted deposition of copper and subsequent low-temperature annealing process.…”