Enhanced water permeation through sodium alginate membranes by incorporating graphene oxides

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 469, Issue , 2014, Pages 272-283

  Cao, Keteng ^a,b   Jiang, Zhongyi ^a,b   Zhao, Jing ^a,b   Zhao, Cuihong ^a,b   Gao, Chengyun ^a,b   Pan, Fusheng ^a,b   Wang, Baoyi ^c   Cao, Xingzhong ^c   Yang, Jing ^c  

^a Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Crystallinity; Graphene oxides; Hybrid membrane; Pervaporation dehydration; Water channel

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; EVAPORATION; GRAPHENE; MEMBRANES; NANOSHEETS; PERVAPORATION; SODIUM ALGINATE;

CRYSTALLINITIES; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HYBRID MEMBRANE; PERVAPORATION DEHYDRATION; WATER CHANNELS;

PERMEATION;

ALGINIC ACID; GRAPHENE OXIDE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COVALENT BOND; DISPERSION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PERVAPORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER PERMEABILITY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

EID: 84904413175     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.06.053     Document Type: Article

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