Wrinkles and Folds of Activated Graphene Nanosheets as Fast and Efficient Adsorptive Sites for Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3798-3808

  Wang, Jun ^a,b   Chen, Baoliang ^a,b   Xing, Baoshan ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG PROVINCIAL KEY LABORATORY OF ORGANIC POLLUTION PROCESS AND CONTROL   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CHARGE TRANSFER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ETCHING; MICROPOROSITY; MOLECULES; NANOSHEETS; NAPHTHALENE;

ADSORPTION CAPABILITY; ELECTRON CHARGE TRANSFER; GRAPHENE NANOSHEETS; HYDROPHOBIC ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; LINEAR CORRELATION; MORPHOLOGICAL ALTERATION; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; STRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHENE; NANOSHEET; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHENANTHRENE; 4-NITROTOLUENE; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; PHENANTHRENE DERIVATIVE; POLLUTANT; TOLUENE;

ADSORPTION; CARBON; CORRELATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOPARTICLE; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHENANTHRENE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; SURFACE AREA;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTHERM; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ADSORPTION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; POLLUTANT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ADSORPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GRAPHITE; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NAPHTHALENES; PHENANTHRENES; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TOLUENE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84963974320     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04865     Document Type: Article

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