Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Unexpectedly efficient ion desorption of graphene-based materials

  • Xinming Xia,
  • Feng Zhou,
  • Jing Xu,
  • Zhongteng Wang,
  • Jian Lan,
  • Yan Fan,
  • Zhikun Wang,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Junlang Chen,
  • Shangshen Feng,
  • Yusong Tu,
  • Yizhou Yang,
  • Liang Chen,
  • Haiping Fang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35077-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Desorption of ions from sorbents generally involves high acid or base concentrations and long desorption times, especially for multivalent ions. Here the authors report a rapid and efficient desorption of Co2+, Mn2+, and Sr2+ adsorbed on magnetite-graphene oxide that occurs by adding low amounts of Al3+, which is shown to interact with graphene more strongly than divalent ions.