{"id":143637,"date":"2022-08-05T10:25:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/graphene-oxide-membranes-reveal-unusual-behaviour-of-water-at-the-nanoscale"},"modified":"2022-08-05T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T15:25:24","slug":"graphene-oxide-membranes-reveal-unusual-behaviour-of-water-at-the-nanoscale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/graphene-oxide-membranes-reveal-unusual-behaviour-of-water-at-the-nanoscale","title":{"rendered":"Graphene oxide membranes reveal unusual behaviour of water at the nanoscale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/graphene-oxide-membranes-reveal-unusual-behaviour-of-water-at-the-nanoscale2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do more pores in a sieve allow more liquid to flow through it? As material scientists have uncovered, this seemingly simple question may have an unexpected answer at the nanoscale\u2014and it could have important implications in the development of water filtration, energy storage and hydrogen production.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from UNSW Sydney, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), GANIL (France) and Toyota Technological Institute (Japan) experimenting with Graphene Oxide (GO) membranes have discovered the opposite can occur at the nanoscopic level. The research, published in <i>Nano Letters<\/i>, shows the chemical environment of the sieve and the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/surface+tension\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surface tension<\/a> of the liquid play a surprisingly important role in permeability.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers observed that a density of pores doesn\u2019t necessarily lead to higher <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water<\/a> permeability\u2014in other words, having more tiny holes doesn\u2019t always allow water to flow through at the nanoscale. The study, supported by the European Union and Humboldt Research Foundation funding, shines new light on the mechanisms that govern water flow through GO membranes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do more pores in a sieve allow more liquid to flow through it? As material scientists have uncovered, this seemingly simple question may have an unexpected answer at the nanoscale\u2014and it could have important implications in the development of water filtration, energy storage and hydrogen production. Researchers from UNSW Sydney, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), GANIL [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}