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Membranes integrating two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as a category with unusual ion transport and potentially useful separation applications in both aqueous and nonaqueous systems. The interlayer galleries in these membranes drive separation and selectivity, with specific transport properties determined by the chemical and structural modifications within the inherently different interlayers. Here we report an approach to tuning interlayer spacing with a single source material─exfoliated and restacked vermiculite with alkanediamine cross-linkers─to both control the gallery height and enhance the membrane stability. The as-prepared cross-linked 2D vermiculite membranes exhibit ion diffusivities tuned by the length of the selected diamine molecule. The 2D nanochannels in these stabilized vermiculite membranes enable a systematic study of confined ionic transport.
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