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Published on: February 23, 2017
Construction of a hierarchical membrane with angstrom-scale ion channels for enhanced Li+/Mg2+ separation
Lin Fu1,2, Qingchen Wang1,2, Yuhao Hu1,2
1CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China. kongxiangyu@mail.ipc.ac.cn.
Abstract:
A biomimetic hierarchical membrane consisting of ZIF-8 and MXene with controllable morphology could be fabricated by the facile electrochemical deposition method, well-realizing Li+/Mg2+ sieving. This membrane could work stably in real brine with perm-selectivity of Li+/Mg2+ up to 47.4.
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