Ultrafast viscous water flow through nanostrand-channelled graphene oxide membranes

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Huang, Hubiao ^a   Song, Zhigong ^b   Wei, Ning ^b   Shi, Li ^a   Mao, Yiyin ^a   Ying, Yulong ^a   Sun, Luwei ^a   Xu, Zhiping ^b   Peng, Xinsheng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; NANOCHANNEL; POROUS POLYMER;

MEMBRANE; OXIDE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PURIFICATION; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER FLOW;

ARTICLE; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84890945623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3979     Document Type: Article

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