Highly Efficient Arginine Intercalated Graphene Oxide Composite Membranes for Water Desalination

Graphene oxide-based composite membranes have received enormous attention for highly efficient water desalination. Herein, we prepare arginine/graphene oxide (Arg/GO) composite membranes by surface functionalizing GO nanosheets with arginine amino acid. Arginine has a unique combination of hydroxyl and amino functional groups that cross-link GO nanosheets through hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions. The as-prepared ArgGO composite membranes with different thicknesses are used to separate the salt and dye molecules. The 900-nm-thick Arg@GO composite membrane shows high rejection of 98% for NaCl and 99.8% for MgCl2, Ni(NO3)2, and Pb(NO3)2 with good water permeance. Such a membrane also shows a high separation efficiency (100%) for methylene blue, rhodamine B, and Evans blue dyes. At the same time, the ultrathin Arg@GO composite membrane (220 ± 10 nm) exhibits high water permeance of up to 2100 ± 10 L m-2 h-1 bar-1. Furthermore, the 900-nm-thick Arg@GO composite membrane is stable in an aqueous environment for 40 days with significantly less swelling. Therefore, these membranes can be utilized in future desalination and separation applications.

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:39

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Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids - 39(2023), 50 vom: 19. Dez., Seite 18447-18457

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Englisch

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Soomro, Faheeda [VerfasserIn]
Ali, Akbar [VerfasserIn]
Ullah, Sami [VerfasserIn]
Iqbal, Muzaffar [VerfasserIn]
Alshahrani, Thamraa [VerfasserIn]
Khan, Firoz [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Thebo, Khalid Hussain [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 19.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02699

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NLM365468436