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Journal
Description: 
Graphene nanosheets have outstanding adsorption efficiency toward organic molecules but the potential as sorbent for water purification is strongly limited by the tedious recovery of the nanosheets after the treatment, which can cause secondary contaminations. Here, we demonstrate that graphene oxide (GO) and reduced GO (rGO) nanosheets aggregation in tap water, enabling their separation by dead-end microfiltration (MF) on commercial polymeric hollow fiber modules. No evidence of GO/rGO contamination was found in microfiltered water and chemical potability of treated water was confirmed by standard protocols. Moreover, GO/rGO can be recovered (by inverting the filtration modality from IN-OUT to OUT-IN), washed and reused, this allowing the regeneration and reuse of both graphene nanosheets and the filtration module. The procedure (called here GO + MF) was optimized on tap water spiked with …
Publisher: 
Elsevier
Publication date: 
1 Nov 2022
Authors: 

Sara Khaliha, Antonio Bianchi, Alessandro Kovtun, Francesca Tunioli, Alex Boschi, Massimo Zambianchi, Davide Paci, Letizia Bocchi, Sara Valsecchi, Stefano Polesello, Andrea Liscio, Michela Bergamini, Maurizia Brunetti, Maria Luisa Navacchia, Vincenzo Palermo, Manuela Melucci

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Volume: 300 Pages: 121826
Origin: 
Separation and Purification Technology