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Tuning Pore Size in Graphene in the Angstrom Regime for Highly Selective Ion-Ion Separation

Zhao, Kangning  
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Lee, Wan-Chi  
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Rezaei, Mojtaba  
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February 6, 2024
Acs Nano

Zero-dimensional pores spanning only a few angstroms in size in two-dimensional materials such as graphene are some of the most promising systems for designing ion-ion selective membranes. However, the key challenge in the field is that so far a crack-free macroscopic graphene membrane for ion-ion separation has not been realized. Further, methods to tune the pores in the & Aring;-regime to achieve a large ion-ion selectivity from the graphene pore have not been realized. Herein, we report an & Aring;-scale pore size tuning tool for single layer graphene, which incorporates a high density of ion-ion selective pores between 3.5 and 8.5 & Aring; while minimizing the nonselective pores above 10 & Aring;. These pores impose a strong confinement for ions, which results in extremely high selectivity from centimeter-scale porous graphene between monovalent and bivalent ions and near complete blockage of ions with the hydration diameter, D-H, greater than 9.0 & Aring;. The ion diffusion study reveals the presence of an energy barrier corresponding to partial dehydration of ions with the barrier increasing with D-H. We observe a reversal of K+/Li+ selectivity at elevated temperature and attribute this to the relative size of the dehydrated ions. These results underscore the promise of porous two-dimensional materials for solute-solute separation when & Aring;-scale pores can be incorporated in a precise manner.

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DOI
10.1021/acsnano.3c11068
Web of Science ID

WOS:001163348900001

Author(s)
Zhao, Kangning  
Lee, Wan-Chi  
Rezaei, Mojtaba  
Chi, Heng-Yu  
Li, Shaoxian  
Villalobos, Luis Francisco  
Hsu, Kuang-Jung  
Zhang, Yuyang
Wang, Feng-Chao
Agrawal, Kumar Varoon  
Date Issued

2024-02-06

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
Acs Nano
Volume

18

Issue

7

Start page

5571

End page

5580

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Technology

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Single Layer Graphene

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Partial Dehydration

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Angstrom-Scale Pore

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Ion Selectivity

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Poresizedistribution

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Selective Ion Transport

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REVIEWED

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LAS  
FunderGrant Number

European Research Council (ERC)

805437

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

20021_192005

Joint EPFL-Taiwan Scholarship

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