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Effect of the electron irradiation on the ion permeation through the GO membrane

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The ion permeation through graphene oxide (GO) membranes irradiated by electrons was studied in this paper. The effect of irradiation on the microstructure of GO membranes was investigated using various techniques, such as scanning electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and Raman spectrum. FTIR results confirmed that no new chemical groups were formed during the electron beam irradiation process. XRD results indicated that the interlayer spacing shrunk with the irradiation dose. The ions permeation through the GO membrane was evaluated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. It was found that the inductive effect can be enhanced when the irradiation dose increased from 0 to 80 kGy and weakened at a higher irradiation dose. The machine learning method was further employed to explore the optimum parameters. The predicted data are highly consistent with the experimental data (results), which were verified by the testing phase in machine learning. The electron beam irradiation can be potentially applied to adjust the inhibition of ion permeation through the GO membrane.

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This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China 12205089, 12375290, and 12075172 and the Scientific Research Foundation of Hubei University of Science and Technology, grant numbers, 2021ZX16, 2022ZX03, 2021KF06, BK202216, and 2021ZX18.

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  1. Hubei Key Laboratory of Radiation Chemistry and Functional Materials, School of Nuclear Technology and Chemistry & Biology, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xianning, 437100, China

    Libing Qian, Mingyang Wu, Yonghong Hu, Zhiyuan Chen & Xiuqin Tang

  2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Plasma Chemical and Advanced Materials, School of Materials and Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, 430205, China

    Haodong Yang & Zhe Chen

  3. School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xianning, 437100, China

    Zhe Liu

  4. School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Chunqing He

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LQ contributed to writing, reviewing, and editing of the manuscript, conceptualization, investigation, methodology, and funding acquisition. MW contributed to writing of the original draft, methodology, investigation, and formal analysis. HY contributed to investigation and formal analysis. ZL contributed to investigation and formal analysis. YH contributed to investigation and methodology, ZC contributed to formal analysis, methodology, and funding acquisition. CH contributed to formal analysis and funding acquisition. ZC contributed to writing of the original draft, resources, project administration, and funding acquisition. XT contributed to conceptualization, resources, writing of the original draft, and methodology.

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Qian, L., Wu, M., Yang, H. et al. Effect of the electron irradiation on the ion permeation through the GO membrane. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 34, 2139 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-11542-z

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