Abstract:A significant portion of current desalination techniques rely on porous membranes whose performance is highly dependent on the delicate trade-off between water permeability and ion rejection. At the nanoscale, water and salt transport are governed by the nanopore's geometry and charge distribution. In this Article, we mimicked the reverse osmosis process with MoS 2 nanoporous membranes using molecular dynamics simulations to shed light on how water and ion transport phenomena influence each other and how they … Show more
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