Engineered zero-dimensional fullerene/carbon dots-polymer based nanocomposite membranes for wastewater treatment

M Jani, JA Arcos-Pareja, M Ni - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
With the rapid growth of industrialization, diverse pollutants produced as by-products are
emitted to the air-water ecosystem, and toxic contamination of water is one of the most …

State-of-the-Art of Polymer/Fullerene C60 Nanocomposite Membranes for Water Treatment: Conceptions, Structural Diversity and Topographies

A Kausar, I Ahmad, M Maaza, MH Eisa - Membranes, 2022 - mdpi.com
To secure existing water resources is one of the imposing challenges to attain sustainability
and ecofriendly world. Subsequently, several advanced technologies have been developed …

Enhanced permeability of rGO/S-GO layered membranes with tunable inter-structure for effective rejection of salts and dyes

P Zhang, JL Gong, GM Zeng, B Song, S Fang… - Separation and …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, a novel rGO/S-GO laminated membrane was prepared by a pressure-assembly
stacked method, followed with a thermal deoxygenation process. The neighboring interlayer …

Molecular insights into desalination performance of lamellar graphene membranes: Significant of hydrophobicity and interlayer spacing

C Chen, F Huang, L Jia, L Zhang, E Chen… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
The multilayer graphene-based membranes have shown well prospect in seawater
desalination application owing to their well-defined 2D for rapid water penetration and …

Molecular insight into C60-grafted graphene oxide as a novel reverse osmosis membrane with low energy consumption for seawater desalination

T Ranjbar, H Akbarzadeh, E Mehrjouei, M Abbaspour… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, via molecular dynamics simulations, the performance of the cross-sectional and
flat pure GO and GO/C 60 membranes for seawater desalination have been investigated …

Catalyzed frontal polymerization-aided 3D printing of epoxy thermosets

Z Zhang, C Gao, R Liu, W Li, J Qiu, S Wang - Additive Manufacturing Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Frontal polymerization is a self-propagating exothermic reaction and provides a rapid and
energy-efficient way to manufacture thermosets. A critical issue for frontal polymerization is …

Water purification performance and energy consumption of gradient nanocomposite membranes

Y Liu, Z Zhang, W Li, R Liu, J Qiu, S Wang - Composites Part B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Reverse Osmosis (RO) membrane-based desalination technology accounts for 2/3 water
desalination installation capacity all over the world but suffers from intensive energy …

Oxidized carbon-based spacers for pressure-resistant graphene oxide membranes

EA Chernova, KE Gurianov, DI Petukhov… - Membranes, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this study, we report the influence of carbon-based spacer-oxidized derivatives of
fullerenes (fullerenols) C60 (OH) 26–32 and graphene oxide nanoribbons on the …

Fabrication of Fullerene-Pillared Porous Graphene and Its Water Vapor Adsorption

K Haraguchi, S Iwakami, T Ohba - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Porous carbons with large pore volumes and surface areas provide high performance in gas
separation, water purification, and storage. Carbon composites comprising nanocarbons …

Carbon nanotubes encapsulating fullerene as water nano-channels with distinctive selectivity: Molecular dynamics simulation

M Foroutan, VF Naeini, M Ebrahimi - Applied Surface Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to their facile manipulation and transport property, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are the
best candidate for ions and water channels with high selectivity behaviors. In this work …