Highly efficient quasi-static water desalination using monolayer graphene oxide/titania hybrid laminates

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Sun, Pengzhan ^a   Chen, Qiao ^a   Li, Xinda ^a   Liu, He ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Zhong, Minlin ^a   Wei, Jinquan ^a   Wu, Dehai ^a   Ma, Renzhi ^b   Sasaki, Takayoshi ^b   Zhu, Hongwei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; DESALINATION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; IRRADIATION; LAMINATES; MONOLAYERS; PERMEATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER FILTRATION;

EXTERNAL HYDROSTATIC PRESSURES; HYBRID LAMINATES; HYBRID MEMBRANE; ION PERMEATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; PHOTO-REDUCTION; PHOTOINDUCED HYDROPHILIC; WATER DESALINATION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84990909337     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2015.7     Document Type: Article

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