Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Charge-specific size-dependent separation of water-soluble organic molecules by fluorinated nanoporous networks

  • Jeehye Byun,
  • Hasmukh A. Patel,
  • Damien Thirion,
  • Cafer T. Yavuz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13377
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Porous materials for aqueous contaminant removal are common, but there are few examples of size and charge-dependent separation. Here, the authors report the charge-specific size-dependent separation of water-soluble molecules through a polymeric network where fluorines are the predominant surface groups.