Enhanced gas permeation through graphene nanocomposites

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 13700-13712

  Berean, Kyle J ^a   Ou, Jian Zhen ^a   Nour, Majid ^a   Field, Matthew R ^a   Alsaif, Manal M Y A ^a   Wang, Yichao ^a   Ramanathan, Rajesh ^a   Bansal, Vipul ^a   Kentish, Sandra ^b   Doherty, Cara M ^c   Hill, Anita J ^c   McSweeney, Chris ^c   Kaner, Richard B ^d   Kalantar Zadeh, Kourosh ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; GAS PERMEABILITY; GASES; GRAPHENE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANES; MICROCHANNELS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PERMEATION; PHASE SEPARATION; SILICONES;

EFFECTIVE SURFACE AREA; ENERGY-DEPENDENT PROCESS; FRACTIONAL FREE VOLUME; GRAPHENE NANOCOMPOSITES; NANO-COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

EID: 84935031780     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b02995     Document Type: Article

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