Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 502, Issue -, Pages 70-79Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.077
Keywords
Adsorption; Contaminants; Graphene nanosheets; Graphene composites; Graphene oxide nanosheets; Removal
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21201181, 21471163]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [14JJ2006]
- Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20110162120070]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2013M542107]
- Postdoctoral Daily Fund of Hunan Province
- Key Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research, Ministry of Education, PRC [13JZD0016]
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Due to their high adsorption capacities, carbon-based nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes, activated carbons, fullerene and graphene are widely used as the currently most promising functional materials. Since its discovery in 2004, graphene has exhibited great potential in many technological fields, such as energy storage materials, supercapacitors, resonators, quantum dots, solar cells, electronics, and sensors. The large theoretical specific surface area of graphene nanosheets (2630 m(2).g(-1)) makes them excellent candidates for adsorption technologies. Further, graphene nanosheets could be used as substrates for decorating the surfaces of nanoparticles, and the corresponding nanocomposites could be applied as novel adsorbents for the removal of low concentrated contaminants from aqueous solutions. Therefore, graphene nanosheets will challenge the current existing adsorbents, including other types of carbon-based nanomaterials. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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