TY - JOUR
T1 - Outlook for graphene-based desalination membranes
AU - Boretti, Albert
AU - Al-Zubaidy, Sarim
AU - Vaclavikova, Miroslava
AU - Al-Abri, Mohammed
AU - Castelletto, Stefania
AU - Mikhalovsky, Sergey
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the financial support of the Marie Curie Programme FP7-People-2013-IAAP-WaSClean project No 612250 (S.M. and M.V.) as well as Horizon2020-MSCA-RISE-2016-NANOMED project No. 734641 (M.V.).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, The Author(s).
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - We discuss here next-generation membranes based on graphene for water desalination, based on the results of molecular simulations, application of nanofabrication technologies, and experiments. The potential of graphene to serve as a key material for advanced membranes comes from two major possible advantages of this atomically thin two-dimensional material: permeability and selectivity. Graphene-based membranes are also hypothetically attractive based on concentration polarization and fouling, and graphene’s chemical and physical stability. Further research is needed to fully achieve these theoretical benefits, however. In addition, improvement in the design and manufacturing processes, so to produce performance and cost-effective graphene-based desalination devices, is still an open question. Finally, membranes are only one part of desalination systems, and current processes are not optimized to take full advantage of the higher selectivity and permeability of graphene. New desalination processes are, therefore, needed to unlock the full benefits of graphene.
AB - We discuss here next-generation membranes based on graphene for water desalination, based on the results of molecular simulations, application of nanofabrication technologies, and experiments. The potential of graphene to serve as a key material for advanced membranes comes from two major possible advantages of this atomically thin two-dimensional material: permeability and selectivity. Graphene-based membranes are also hypothetically attractive based on concentration polarization and fouling, and graphene’s chemical and physical stability. Further research is needed to fully achieve these theoretical benefits, however. In addition, improvement in the design and manufacturing processes, so to produce performance and cost-effective graphene-based desalination devices, is still an open question. Finally, membranes are only one part of desalination systems, and current processes are not optimized to take full advantage of the higher selectivity and permeability of graphene. New desalination processes are, therefore, needed to unlock the full benefits of graphene.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41545-018-0004-z
DO - 10.1038/s41545-018-0004-z
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85066452920
SN - 2059-7037
VL - 1
JO - npj Clean Water
JF - npj Clean Water
IS - 1
M1 - 5
ER -