Nanofluidics for osmotic energy conversion

Z Zhang, L Wen, L Jiang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
The osmotic pressure difference between river water and seawater is a promising source of
renewable energy. However, current osmotic energy conversion processes show limited …

Angstrom-scale ion channels towards single-ion selectivity

H Zhang, X Li, J Hou, L Jiang, H Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Artificial ion channels with ion permeability and selectivity comparable to their biological
counterparts are highly desired for efficient separation, biosensing, and energy conversion …

Covalent organic framework membranes for efficient separation of monovalent cations

H Wang, Y Zhai, Y Li, Y Cao, B Shi, R Li, Z Zhu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Covalent organic frameworks (COF), with rigid, highly ordered and tunable structures, can
actively manipulate the synergy of entropic selectivity and enthalpic selectivity, holding great …

Highly ion-permselective porous organic cage membranes with hierarchical channels

T Xu, B Wu, L Hou, Y Zhu, F Sheng… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Membranes of high ion permselectivity are significant for the separation of ion species at the
subnanometer scale. Here, we report porous organic cage (ie, CC3) membranes with …

Membrane-based nanoconfined heterogeneous catalysis for water purification: A critical review✰

QV Ly, L Cui, MB Asif, W Khan, LD Nghiem, Y Hwang… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Progress in heterogeneous advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) is hampered by several
issues including mass transfer limitation, limited diffusion of short-lived reactive oxygen …

Two-dimensional MXene membranes with biomimetic sub-nanochannels for enhanced cation sieving

R Xu, Y Kang, W Zhang, B Pan, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Membranes with high ion permeability and selectivity are of considerable interest for
sustainable water treatment, resource extraction and energy storage. Herein, inspired by K+ …

Microporous framework membranes for precise molecule/ion separations

H Dou, M Xu, B Wang, Z Zhang, G Wen… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Microporous framework membranes such as metal–organic framework (MOF) membranes
and covalent organic framework (COF) membranes are constructed by the controlled growth …

Bioinspired Ti3C2Tx MXene‐Based Ionic Diode Membrane for High‐Efficient Osmotic Energy Conversion

L Ding, M Zheng, D Xiao, Z Zhao, J Xue… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bioinspired asymmetric nanofluidic ion channels with ionic diode behavior that can boost
the osmotic energy (so‐called blue energy) conversion are highly desirable, especially if …

Highly selective and high-performance osmotic power generators in subnanochannel membranes enabled by metal-organic frameworks

YC Liu, LH Yeh, MJ Zheng, KCW Wu - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
The electric organs of electric eels are able to convert ionic gradients into high-efficiency
electricity because their electrocytes contain numerous “subnanoscale” protein ion channels …

A nano‐heterogeneous membrane for efficient separation of lithium from high magnesium/lithium ratio brine

H Peng, Q Zhao - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium extraction from salt lake brines is highly demanded to circumvent the lithium supply
shortage. However, polymer nanofiltration membranes suffer from low lithium permeability …