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Ultrafast viscous water flow through nanostrand-channelled graphene oxide membranes
- Source :
- Nature Communications. 4
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013.
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Abstract
- Pressure-driven ultrafiltration membranes are important in separation applications. Advanced filtration membranes with high permeance and enhanced rejection must be developed to meet rising worldwide demand. Here we report nanostrand-channelled graphene oxide ultrafiltration membranes with a network of nanochannels with a narrow size distribution (3-5 nm) and superior separation performance. This permeance offers a 10-fold enhancement without sacrificing the rejection rate compared with that of graphene oxide membranes, and is more than 100 times higher than that of commercial ultrafiltration membranes with similar rejection. The flow enhancement is attributed to the porous structure and significantly reduced channel length. An abnormal pressure-dependent separation behaviour is also reported, where the elastic deformation of nanochannels offers tunable permeation and rejection. The water flow through these hydrophilic graphene oxide nanochannels is identified as viscous. This nanostrand-channelling approach is also extendable to other laminate membranes, providing potential for accelerating separation and water-purification processes.
- Subjects :
- Multidisciplinary
Materials science
Graphene
Water flow
Ultrafiltration
Oxide
General Physics and Astronomy
Nanotechnology
General Chemistry
Permeance
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
law.invention
chemistry.chemical_compound
Membrane
Chemical engineering
chemistry
law
Filtration
Graphene oxide paper
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20411723
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature Communications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8994c0893b2f63bbc7e58d719e2f7625