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Direct synthesis of nanocrystalline single-layer porous graphene for hydrogen sieving

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mojtaba Chevalier, Luc Sébastien Bondaz, Jian Hao, Ceren Kocaman

Porous single -layer graphene is promising as the selective layer for membrane-based gas separation thanks to the atomic thickness of the pore which can yield high permselective flux. Direct synthesis of porous graphene by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) i ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Hydrogen-sieving zeolitic films by coating zeolite nanosheets on porous polymeric support

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Xuekui Duan

The synthesis of high-performance gas-sieving zeolitic film is challenging because it involves seeded secondary growth which is complex and difficult to reproduce. Additionally, expensive asymmetric inorganic porous supports are often needed for calcinatio ...

ELSEVIER2023

Hydrogen-sieving single-layer graphene membranes obtained by crystallographic and morphological optimization of catalytic copper foil

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Shaoxian Li, Mojtaba Chevalier

Gas separation membranes based on single-layer-graphene are highly attractive because the size of graphene nanopores can be tuned to separate gases by the size-sieving mechanism. A prerequisite for this, the synthesis of high-quality polycrystalline single ...

2020

Systematic design of millisecond gasification reactor for the incorporation of gas-sieving nanopores in single-layer graphene

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Shaoxian Li, Kuang-Jung Hsu

Etching an ensemble of vacancy defects (nanopores) in single-layer graphene (SLG) to obtain a high density of nanopores with an effective size that enables high-performance gas sieving is challenging. This is because nanopore nucleation and expansion are u ...

2021

Enhanced Water Evaporation from A-Scale Graphene Nanopores

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mounir Driss Mensi, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Shiqi Huang, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Wan-Chi Lee

Enhancing the kinetics of liquid-vapor transition from nanoscale confinements is an attractive strategy for developing evaporation and separation applications. The ultimate limit of confinement for evaporation is an atom thick interface hosting angstrom-sc ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Centimeter-scale gas-sieving nanoporous single-layer graphene membrane

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Guangwei He, Luc Sébastien Bondaz, Wan-Chi Lee

High-permeance, molecular-sieving, nanoporous single-layer graphene (NSLG) membranes are highly promising for gas separation. However, the formation of cracks during the transfer of NSLG to a low-cost porous support is difficult to avoid. These cracks are ...

2020

Oxygen enrichment of air: Performance guidelines for membranes based on techno-economic assessment

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Marina Micari

The use of oxygen-enriched air (OEA) is an important strategy for reducing process cost and CO2 emissions in several industrial processes. Membrane-based processes, attributing to their high energy efficiency, are promising alternatives to cryogenic distil ...

ELSEVIER2022

Nanolithography of the nanocorral structure of chemisorbed oxygen atoms on the graphitic lattice

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shaoxian Li

Controlled atomic patterning is an attractive tool to fine tune properties of graphitic lattice. Several O-functionalized derivatives of graphitic lattice have been widely studied, e.g., graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, and functionalized carbon nan ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Optimization of crosslinking in Poly(vinylidene fluoride) membranes for solvent-resistant nanofiltration: a comparative study between crosslinking agents

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Cédric Karel J Van Goethem

This study presents an optimized and scalable crosslinking approach for poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) membranes in solvent-resistant nanofiltration (SRNF), emphasizing cost efficiency, safety, and environmental sustainability. The effect of four swellin ...

2025

High-performance H2/CO2 separation from 4-nm-thick oriented Zn2(benzimidazole)4 films

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Heng-Yu Chi, Qi Liu, Shuqing Song, Ranadip Goswami, Zongyao Zhou, Swathilakshmi Swathilakshmi

High-performance membrane-based H2/CO2 separation offers a promising way to reduce the energy costs of precombustion capture. Current membranes, often made from two-dimensional laminates like metal-organic frameworks, have limitations due to complex fabric ...

2024

Large-scale fabrication of flexible solid-state reference electrodes

Hubert Girault, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Milica Jovic, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra

A new approach for large-scale fabrication of miniaturized, reliable and planar solid-state reference electrodes on flexible substrates is presented. Inkjet printing technique was used for the fabrication of conductive path and silver patterns that were ch ...

2019

Hydrogen sieving from intrinsic defects of benzene-derived single-layer graphene

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Shiqi Huang, Mojtaba Chevalier, Jing Zhao, Mina Moradi

Single-layer graphene films, crystallized by chemical vapor deposition, host a low density of vacancy defects that are attractive for the size-sieving of molecules. The size and the density of such defects are a function of the growth temperature and the c ...

2019

Unit-cell-thick zeolitic imidazolate framework films for membrane application

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Heng-Yu Chi, Shaoxian Li, Qi Liu, Deepu Joseph Babu, Shuqing Song, Jian Hao

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are a subset of metal-organic frameworks with more than 200 characterized crystalline and amorphous networks made of divalent transition metal centres (for example, Zn2+ and Co2+) linked by imidazolate linkers. ZIF th ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Fabrication of ZIF-8 membranes by direct assembly of nanosheets from bottom-up synthesis growth solution

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Heng-Yu Chi, Xuekui Duan

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) host intrinsically porous structure and rich structural and chemical features. Several MOFs with pore aperture comparable to the size of gas molecules have attracted interest to form the selective layer of membranes. Synthes ...

ELSEVIER2023

Rapid Gas Transport from Block-Copolymer Templated Nanoporous Carbon Films

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Marina Micari, Jing Zhao, Xuekui Duan

Porous carbon films, attributed to their superior thermal and chemical robustness, are attractive for a number of applications. In the context of molecular separation, a major focus has been on films where the effective pore diameter is lower than 1 nm, e. ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Structure Evolution of Graphitic Surface upon Oxidation: Insights by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Nicola Marzari, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mounir Driss Mensi, Shiqi Huang, Shaoxian Li, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Mojtaba Chevalier, Mohammad Tohidivahdat

Oxidation of graphitic materials has been studied for more than a century to synthesize materials such as graphene oxide, nanoporous graphene, and to cut or unzip carbon nanotubes. However, the understanding of the early stages of oxidation is limited to t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Modulation of Graphene Oxidation Using Substrate-Induced Electron-Hole Puddles for Advancing Molecular Separation

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Heng-Yu Chi, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Yueqing Shen, Ranadip Goswami

Tuning the reactivity of graphene enables molecular-level engineering of the lattice, achieving desired chemical and structural properties through functionalization, doping, and etching. Atom-thin graphene film hosting Å-scale pores, with capability to dif ...

2025

Efficient Kr/Xe separation from triangular g-C(3)N(4)nanopores, a simulation study

Nicola Marzari, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Davide Campi, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Nicola Colonna

Poly(triazine imide) or PTI is a promising material for molecular sieving membranes, thanks to its atom-thick ordered lattice with an extremely high density (1.6 x 10(14)pores per cm(2)) of triangular-shaped nanopores of similar to 0.34 nm diameter. Here, ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Crystallization of gas-selective nanoporous graphene by competitive etching and growth: a modeling study

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mojtaba Chevalier

A robust synthesis methodology for crystallizing nanoporous single-layer graphene hosting a high density of size-selective nanopores is urgently needed to realize the true potential of two-dimensional membranes for gas separation. Currently, there are no c ...

Nature Research2019

Single-layer graphene membranes by crack-free transfer for gas mixture separation

Andreas Züttel, Emad Oveisi, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Wen Luo, Shiqi Huang, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Guangwei He, Mojtaba Chevalier, Jing Zhao

The single-layer graphene film, when incorporated with molecular-sized pores, is predicted to be the ultimate membrane. However, the major bottlenecks have been the crack-free transfer of large-area graphene on a porous support, and the incorporation of mo ...

Nature Publishing Group2018