Selective trans-membrane transport of alkali and alkaline earth cations through graphene oxide membranes based on cation-π interactions

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 850-859

  Sun, Pengzhan ^a   Zheng, Feng ^a   Zhu, Miao ^a   Song, Zhigong ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Zhong, Minlin ^a   Wu, Dehai ^a   Little, Reginald B ^b   Xu, Zhiping ^a   Zhu, Hongwei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alkali and alkaline earth cations; cation interaction; first principles calculations; graphene oxide; selective permeation; thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH CATIONS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; GRAPHENE OXIDES; MEMBRANE SEPARATION; PENETRATION BEHAVIOR; SELECTIVE PERMEATION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; WATER DESALINATION;

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; CALCULATIONS; CELL MEMBRANES; DESALINATION; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); GRAPHENE; ION EXCHANGE; MEMBRANES; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER FILTRATION;

POSITIVE IONS;

EID: 84893517213     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4055682     Document Type: Article

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