Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38228699›Full record

ArticleScientific reports2024

Ion-retention properties of graphene oxide/zinc oxide nanocomposite membranes at various pH and temperature conditions.

Amir Hassanpour, Marc A Gauthier, Shuhui Sun

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amir HassanpourInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Varennes, QC, J3X 1P7, Canada. amir.hassanpour@inrs.ca.
Marc A GauthierInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Varennes, QC, J3X 1P7, Canada. marc.andre.gauthier@inrs.ca.
Shuhui SunInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Varennes, QC, J3X 1P7, Canada. shuhui.sun@inrs.ca.
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique · CA

Funding

Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology) RGPIN-2019-7158Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology) RGPIN-2021-03301Fonds de Recherche du Qubec - Nature et Technologies (Quebec Fund for Research in Nature and Technology) 2022-PR-300412Fonds de Recherche du Qubec - Nature et Technologies (Quebec Fund for Research in Nature and Technology) 2022-PR-301076
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Laminar graphene oxide (GO) is a promising candidate material for next-generation highly water-permeable membranes. Despite extensive research, there is little information known concerning GO's ion-sieving properties at high acidic/basic pH and temperatures. In this study, the ion-blockage properties of the pristine GO and GO/zinc oxide (ZnO) nanocomposite membranes were tested using a non-pressure-driven filtration setup over a wide range of pH and temperatures. The ZnO nanoparticles within the composite membranes were synthesized via the room-temperature oxidation of zinc acetate and zinc acrylate precursors and were uniformly distributed across the composite membrane. It is observed that partially replacing the zinc acetate precursor with zinc acrylate improves the blockage performance of the composite membranes under extreme basic conditions by 42%. Moreover, photocatalytically-reduced composite membranes blocked copper sulfate ions 28% more than as-prepared composite membranes. Further, it was discovered that the composition of the membrane plays a vital role in its ion blockage performance at higher temperatures.

Identifiers

PMID38228699
PMCPMC10791694
OpenAlexW4390902349

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.