Nanotechnology: Ion transport in complex layered Graphene-Based membranes with tuneable interlayer spacing

Science Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Cheng, Chi ^a   Jiang, Gengping ^a   Garvey, Christopher J ^b   Wang, Yuanyuan ^a   Simon, George P ^a   Liu, Jefferson Z ^a   Li, Dan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; IONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

INTERLAYER SPACINGS; ION TRANSPORT EFFECT; ION-TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; NANOFLUIDIC SYSTEMS; NANOPOROUS STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL IMPERFECTIONS; STRUCTURAL MODELING; TRANSPORT PHENOMENA;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 85041540816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501272     Document Type: Article

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