Nanometric Graphene Oxide Framework Membranes with Enhanced Heavy Metal Removal via Nanofiltration

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 10235-10242

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Zhang, Sui ^a   Chung, Tai Shung ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; NANOFILTRATION; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; STABILITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ENRICHMENT MODIFICATION; FRAMEWORK MATERIALS; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; PURE WATER PERMEABILITIES; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES; TRANSPORT RESISTANCE; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); WATER PERMEABILITY;

MEMBRANES;

AMINE; CADMIUM; CARBOXYL GROUP; EDOXUDINE; EPOXIDE; ETHYLENEDIAMINE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; LEAD; LEAD NITRATE; MAGNESIUM ION; NANOCHANNEL; NICKEL; NICKEL CHLORIDE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE DERIVATIVE; ZINC ION; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; ETHYLENEDIAMINE DERIVATIVE; GRAPHITE; HEAVY METAL; NANOPARTICLE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; WATER POLLUTANT;

CARBON; DESIGN; FILTRATION; HEAVY METAL; MEMBRANE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; DENSITY; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANODEVICE; NANOFILTRATION; NANOSHEET; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POSITRON ANNIHILATION LIFETIME SPECTROSCOPY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE CHARGE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT; CHEMISTRY; FILTRATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PERMEABILITY; PH; PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ETHYLENEDIAMINES; FILTRATION; GRAPHITE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METALS, HEAVY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; PRESSURE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; STATIC ELECTRICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84939634075     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02086     Document Type: Article

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