Water desalination using nanoporous single-layer graphene

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 459-464

  Surwade, Sumedh P ^a   Smirnov, Sergei N ^b   Vlassiouk, Ivan V ^a   Unocic, Raymond R ^a   Veith, Gabriel M ^a   Dai, Sheng ^a,c   Mahurin, Shannon M ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STABILITY; DESALINATION; GRAPHENE; MECHANICAL STABILITY; MEMBRANES; OSMOSIS; WATER FILTRATION;

DESALINATION MEMBRANES; FILTRATION MEMBRANES; OXYGEN PLASMA ETCHING; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; SALT REJECTION RATES; SEPARATION MEMBRANES; THEORETICAL STUDY; WATER DESALINATION;

MICROFILTRATION;

GRAPHENE; OXYGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESALINATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84929148433     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.37     Document Type: Article

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