• 文献标题:   Approximately 1 nm-sized artificial tunnels in wrinkled graphene-graphene oxide composite membranes for efficient dye/dye separation and dye desalination
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YAO H, YU H, ZHANG BY, CHEN KY, YI Q, XIE HG, HU XY, TANG T, CHENG YF, TAO XW, XU K, OU JZ
  • 作者关键词:   2d nanofiltration membrane, wrinkled graphene, 1 nmsized artificial tunnel, sizesieving, dye, dye separation, dye desalination
  • 出版物名称:   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
  • ISSN:   1385-8947 EI 1873-3212
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  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.cej.2022.136753 EA MAY 2022
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

Efficient separation of solutes by nanofiltration membranes (NMs) is the key to the utilization of wastewater and sustainable economic development. However, the establishment of dense and narrow-dispersed artificial tunnels in NMs remains a challenge, leading to impractical water permeability and solutes selectivity for real-world applications. In this work, we construct approximately 1 nm-sized artificial tunnels within the GO-based membranes (GOMs) to balance the water permeation and nanofiltration performances, by intercalating the three-dimensional wrinkled graphene (WG) sheets with surface functional groups manipulated. Such peculiar nanotunneled structure in the WG/GO composite membrane, at the optimized WG/GO ratio of 1:2, is revealed by the selective filtration of large-sized PEG gel particles over sub-nm-sized counterparts, leading to a selective rejection of >1 nm-sized molecules (e.g. CV, CR, and TB) over sub-nm-sized impurities (e.g. NR, MB, NaCl, and Na2SO4) with excellent mechanical stability and anti-fouling property. More importantly, the dense nanotunneled structure enables the composite membrane with an increased water flux of 65.68 L m-2h- 1 bar- 1, which is ~48 times enhanced compared to that of pure GOM. Our strategy enables the precise engineering of artificial nanotunnels within compact GOM for high-performance dye/dye separation and dye desalination applications.