Ion transport through thermally reduced and mechanically stretched graphene oxide membrane

Wook Choi, Kyoung Yong Chun, Jongwoon Kim, Chang Soo Han

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    Abstract

    We investigated the ion transport behavior of graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) membranes along with thermal treatment and mechanical stretching. The GO membrane with about 400 nm thickness was fabricated onto a polytetrafluoroethylene membrane by vacuum filtration method and then thermally reduced at 120 and 230 °C, respectively. Various ions with different sizes were transported across the membranes via the electric field. As the results, we found that the ion transport linearly depends on the stretching up to 40% of the membrane in most ions. The thermal reduction of the membrane significantly affected the stabilization and modulation the rate of ion transport. Also, we discussed the ion transport mechanism of the stretchable rGO membranes based on the experimental data.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)377-382
    Number of pages6
    JournalCarbon
    Volume114
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017 Apr 1

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This work was supported by a Nano Material Fundamental Research (2012M3A7B4049863) and Basic Science Research Program (2015R1A2A1A01005931, 2015-01004751, 2016R1A5A1010148) through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.

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    © 2016 Elsevier Ltd

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Chemistry
    • General Materials Science

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