Developing tunable nanoporous graphene membranes for resource recovery

该项目旨在推动原子厚度的纳米多孔石墨烯分子过滤器(膜)的开发，以解决化学工业中具有挑战性的分离问题，并开辟从废流中回收有价值材料的新途径。这些膜的极薄使得它们可以用商业技术通常使用的一小部分能量来分离分子。所提出的电化学平台有望以前所未有的控制来制造和操作适合用途的膜。利用这一平台研究受限条件下的离子传输并制造用于资源回收的膜，有望在材料工程、纳米流体和膜领域获得重要的新知识。

This project aims to advance the development of atom-thick nanoporous graphene molecular filters (membranes) to tackle challenging separations in the chemical industry and open new pathways to recover valuable materials from waste streams. The extreme thinness of these membranes allows them to separate molecules with a fraction of the energy typically used by commercially available technologies. The proposed electrochemical platform is expected to fabricate and operate fit-for-purpose membranes with unprecedented control. Significant new knowledge in the areas of material engineering, nanofluidics, and membranes is expected from exploiting this platform to study ion transport under confinement and make membranes for resource recovery.