Insight into the Nanoscale Mechanism of Rapid H2O Transport within a Graphene Oxide Membrane: Impact of Oxygen Functional Group Clustering

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 321-332

  Ban, Shuai ^a,b   Xie, Jing ^b   Wang, Yajun ^b   Jing, Bo ^a   Liu, Bei ^a,b   Zhou, Hongjun ^b  

^a State Key Laboratory of Offshore Oil Exploitation   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

adsorption; diffusion; gas permeation; graphene; intercalation; molecular simulation; surface chemistry

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COMPOSITE FILMS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DIFFUSION; GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; GRAPHENE; HYDROGEN BONDS; INTERCALATION; PERMEATION; SORPTION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC VAPOR SORPTION; GAS PERMEATION; INTERLAYER DISTANCE; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; NANO-SCALE MECHANISM; OXYGEN FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; SURFACE DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMO-GRAVIMETRIC;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84954457184     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08824     Document Type: Article

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