Water desalination using stainless steel meshes coated with layered double hydroxide/graphene oxide nanocomposite.

Coated stainless steel meshes with layered double hydroxides and graphene oxide nanocomposites (LDH/GO) were used as desalination membranes. The nature of stainless steel mesh allows a greater amount of sorbent to be coated on the surface using sol-gel technique and increases the adsorption capacity of ions and the efficiency of desalination. These substrates improve the contact surface area so that approximately 5 min is required for the desalination process.

A Mechanically Flexible Superhydrophobic Rock Wool Modified with Reduced Graphene Oxide-Chloroperene Rubber for Oil-Spill Clean-Up.

The leakage of industrial oil and organic wastewater discharge has caused serious damage to the natural environment and ecology. Therefore, implementation of a low-cost and high-performance adsorbent material is of great significant. This work reports the preparation of superhydrophobic rock wool (RW) for efficient clean-up of oil and organic solvents.

Graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets prepared by electrophoretic size fractionation as an anticancer agent against human bone carcinoma.

Graphitic carbon nitride, g-CN, is a fascinating candidate for biomedical applications. Of course, bulk g-CN is not appropriate for this purpose due to its large size distribution and low dispersion in water. Herein, for the first time, the electrophoretic size fractionation of g-CN without introducing some functional groups into its structure was performed within a very short time.