Declining flux and narrowing nanochannels under wrinkles of compacted graphene oxide nanofiltration membranes

Carbon

Volumn 108, Issue , 2016, Pages 568-575

  Wei, Yi ^a   Zhang, Yushan ^b   Gao, Xueli ^a   Yuan, Yiqing ^a   Su, Baowei ^a   Gao, Congjie ^a  

^a Ocean University of China   (China)

^b The Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; HYDRAULIC FLUIDS; MEMBRANES; NANOFILTRATION; SELF ASSEMBLY; SODIUM SULFATE;

FLUX DECLINE; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HUMMERS METHOD; HYDRAULIC PRESSURE; NANO CHANNELS; SELF-ASSEMBLY METHOD; WATER FLUX; WATER PERMEATION;

NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES;

EID: 84980371904     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2016.07.056     Document Type: Article

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