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 …

Angstrofluidics: walking to the limit

Y You, A Ismail, GH Nam, S Goutham… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Angstrom-scale fluidic channels are ubiquitous in nature and play an important role in
regulating cellular traffic, signaling, and responding to stimuli. Synthetic angstrom channels …

Differential pH as a method for increasing cell potential in organic aqueous flow batteries

A Khataee, K Wedege, E Dražević… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In aqueous flow batteries, high battery cell potentials close to the electrochemical window of
water are paramount for high cycle efficiency, power and energy density. The standard …

Buffer anions can enormously enhance the electrokinetic energy conversion in nanofluidics with highly overlapped double layers

L Mei, LH Yeh, S Qian - Nano Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Electrokinetic energy, where the pressure-driven transport of ions through nanofluidics
yields streaming potential/current, is one of the next generation, sustainable, clean energies …

Evaporation-driven electrokinetic energy conversion: Critical review, parametric analysis and perspectives

A Yaroshchuk - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting from evaporation has become a “hot” topic in the last couple of years.
Researchers have speculated on several possible mechanisms. Electrokinetic energy …

Soft interface design for electrokinetic energy conversion

J Zhang, K Zhan, S Wang, X Hou - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The exploitation and utilization of renewable clean energy is of great significance to the
sustainable development of society. Electrokinetic energy conversion (EKEC) based on …

Electrokinetic energy conversion of nanofluids in MHD-based microtube

Z Xie, Y Jian - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The electrokinetic energy conversion of nanofluids is investigated theoretically in this study
without consideration of overlapping electric double layer (EDL). Lorentz force is the only …

Electrokinetic energy conversion efficiency of viscoelastic fluids in a polyelectrolyte-grafted nanochannel

Y Jian, F Li, Y Liu, L Chang, Q Liu, L Yang - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2017 - Elsevier
In order to conduct extensive investigation of energy harvesting capabilities of nanofluidic
devices, we provide analytical solutions for streaming potential and electrokinetic energy …

Performance optimization of differential pH quinone-bromide redox flow battery

A Khataee, E Dražević, J Catalano… - Journal of The …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
It is of paramount importance to operate redox flow batteries (RFB) at high power densities
in order to minimize the stack and associated costs. With published data from our recent …

Tailoring membrane nanostructure and charge density for high electrokinetic energy conversion efficiency

S Haldrup, J Catalano, M Hinge, GV Jensen… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The electrokinetic energy conversion (EKEC) of hydraulic work directly into electrical energy
has been investigated in charged polymeric membranes with different pore charge densities …