Quantized Water Transport: Ideal Desalination through Graphyne-4 Membrane

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Chongqin ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Zeng, Xiao Cheng ^b   Wang, E G ^c   Meng, Sheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84889595455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03163     Document Type: Article

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