Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Highly stable graphene-oxide-based membranes with superior permeability

  • Khalid Hussain Thebo,
  • Xitang Qian,
  • Qing Zhang,
  • Long Chen,
  • Hui-Ming Cheng,
  • Wencai Ren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03919-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Graphene oxide membranes show great potential for water filtering, but improving their performance and stability remains difficult. Here, the authors use theanine amino acid and tannic acid to reduce and cross-link graphene oxide membranes with remarkably high permeability and stability in aqueous solution.