Electrochemical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) are devices allowing the storage or production of electricity. They function through the adsorption of ions from an electrolyte on …
Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have exciting properties such as nonvolatility, large electrochemical windows, and remarkable variety, drawing much interest in energy storage …
Nanofluidics has firmly established itself as a new field in fluid mechanics, as novel properties have been shown to emerge in fluids at the nanometric scale. Thanks to recent …
The dielectric constant ε of interfacial water has been predicted to be smaller than that of bulk water (ε≈ 80) because the rotational freedom of water dipoles is expected to decrease …
Recent advances in nanofluidics have enabled the confinement of water down to a single molecular layer. Such monolayer electrolytes show promise in achieving bioinspired …
J Qian, X Gao, B Pan - Environmental Science & Technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Safe and clean water is of pivotal importance to all living species and the ecosystem on earth. However, the accelerating economy and industrialization of mankind generate water …
In this Focus Review, we put the spotlight on very recent insights into the fascinating world of wet chemistry in the realm offered by nanoconfinement of water in mechanically rather rigid …
Despite more than a century of research, drying shrinkage still causes unwanted stresses and cracks in our concrete infrastructures. This is partly due to the lack of understanding of …
Over the past decade, the ability to reduce the dimensions of fluidic devices to the nanometre scale (by using nanotubes,,,–or nanopores,,,,–, for example) has led to the …