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REVIEWS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 631-668Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/revce-2021-0004
Keywords
atomic thickness; membrane separation; nanosheet material; nanosheet membrane; two-dimensional material
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This article reviews the development and performance of nanosheet membranes in diverse applications. Nanosheet membranes have promising potential in membrane technology due to their unique properties. However, there are still challenges to be addressed, requiring further research and development.
The development of highly efficient separation membranes utilizing emerging materials with controllable pore size and minimized thickness could greatly enhance the broad applications of membrane-based technologies. Having this perspective, many studies on the incorporation of nanosheets in membrane fabrication have been conducted, and strong interest in this area has grown over the past decade. This article reviews the development of nanosheet membranes focusing on two-dimensional materials as a continuous phase, due to their promising properties, such as atomic or nanoscale thickness and large lateral dimensions, to achieve improved performance compared to their discontinuous counterparts. Material characteristics and strategies to process nanosheet materials into separation membranes are reviewed, followed by discussions on the membrane performances in diverse applications. The review concludes with a discussion of remaining challenges and future outlook for nanosheet membrane technologies.
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