Recent advances in utilization of graphene for filtration and desalination of water: A review

Desalination

Volumn 365, Issue , 2015, Pages 389-397

  Aghigh, Arash ^a   Alizadeh, Vahid ^a   Wong, H Y ^a   Islam, Md Shabiul ^b,c   Amin, Nowshad ^c   Zaman, Mukter ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROENGINEERING AND NANOELECTRONICS IMEN   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

CDI; GO sieve; Graphene; Graphene oxide; Nanopores; Nanoporous graphene; RGO; Water desalination

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLOW OF WATER; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MECHANICAL STABILITY; NANOPORES; POPULATION STATISTICS; PORE SIZE; SIEVES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER RESOURCES;

CAPACITIVE DEIONIZATION; NANO-POROUS; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; REVERSE OSMOSIS METHOD; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS; WATER DESALINATION;

WATER FILTRATION;

CARBON; DESALINATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FILTRATION; IONIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PORE SPACE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84925355923     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2015.03.024     Document Type: Review

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