Clean power generation from salinity gradient using reverse electrodialysis technologies: Recent advances, bottlenecks, and future direction

S Chae, H Kim, JG Hong, J Jang, M Higa… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is an emerging renewable energy technology that generates
electricity by combining concentrated and diluted streams with varying salinities. Ion …

Engineering polymeric nanofluidic membranes for efficient ionic transport: biomimetic design, material construction, and advanced functionalities

XC Chen, H Zhang, SH Liu, Y Zhou, L Jiang - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Design elements extracted from biological ion channels guide the engineering of artificial
nanofluidic membranes for efficient ionic transport and spawn biomimetic devices with great …

Importance of nanochannels shape on blue energy generation in soft nanochannels

H Dartoomi, M Khatibi, SN Ashrafizadeh - Electrochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy production is one of today's most pressing issues. Finding alternative energy
sources has become one of the hottest research areas for scholars due to the limited use of …

Nanofluidic membranes to address the challenges of salinity gradient energy harvesting: roles of nanochannel geometry and bipolar soft layer

H Dartoomi, M Khatibi, SN Ashrafizadeh - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Researchers are looking for new, clean, and accessible sources of energy due to rising
global warming caused by the usage of fossil fuels and the irreversible harm that this does to …

Nanoarchitectonics in advanced membranes for enhanced osmotic energy harvesting

P Wang, W Tao, T Zhou, J Wang, C Zhao… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Osmotic energy, often referred to as “blue energy”, is the energy generated from the mixing
of solutions with different salt concentrations, offering a vast, renewable, and …

Efficient Solar‐osmotic Power Generation from Bioinspired Anti‐fouling 2D WS2 Composite Membranes

Q Wang, Y Wu, C Zhu, Y Hu, L Fu, Y Qian… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanofluidic reverse electrodialysis provides an attractive way to harvest osmotic energy.
However, most attention was paid to monotonous membrane structure optimization to …

Enhancing Ionic Selectivity and Osmotic Energy by Using an Ultrathin Zr‐MOF‐Based Heterogeneous Membrane with Trilayered Continuous Porous Structure

ZJ Yang, LH Yeh, YH Peng, YP Chuang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Designing a nanofluidic membrane with high selectivity and fast ion transport property is the
key towards high‐performance osmotic energy conversion. However, most of reported …

Super‐Assembled Multi‐Level Asymmetric Mesochannels for Coupled Accelerated Dual‐Ion Selective Transport

S Zhou, L Xie, X Zhang, M Yan, H Zeng… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Asymmetric nanofluidic devices hold great potential in energy conversion applications.
However, most of the existing asymmetric nanofluidic devices remain a single‐level …

Switchable ion current saturation regimes enabled via heterostructured nanofluidic devices based on metal–organic frameworks

G Laucirica, JA Allegretto, MF Wagner… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The use of track‐etched membranes allows further fine‐tuning of transport regimes and thus
enables their use in (bio) sensing and energy‐harvesting applications, among others …

Blue energy conversion utilizing smart ionic nanotransistors

S Jafari, M Khatibi, SN Ashrafizadeh - Electrochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
The use of concentration gradients across nanofluidic membranes for energy generation
presents a novel and sustainable approach to power production. This study investigates the …