Advances in harvesting water and energy from ubiquitous atmospheric moisture

W Lu, WL Ong, GW Ho - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Atmospheric moisture contains huge amounts of water and energy potential, which,
benefiting from the advances of nanomaterials, hold great promise in delivering circular …

Tailoring the desorption behavior of hygroscopic gels for atmospheric water harvesting in arid climates

H Lu, W Shi, JH Zhang, AC Chen, W Guan… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ubiquitous nature of atmospheric moisture makes it a significant water resource
available at any geographical location. Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) technology …

The Pnictogen bond: the covalently bound arsenic atom in molecular entities in crystals as a Pnictogen bond donor

A Varadwaj, PR Varadwaj, HM Marques, K Yamashita - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In chemical systems, the arsenic-centered pnictogen bond, or simply the arsenic bond,
occurs when there is evidence of a net attractive interaction between the electrophilic region …

Considerations of aerosol-jet printing for the fabrication of printed hybrid electronic circuits

DR Hines, Y Gu, AA Martin, P Li, J Fleischer… - Additive …, 2021 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM) methods are coming of age and are being used to not only
fabricate non-functional prototype parts but also to fabricate high-quality functional parts …

Hydrophilic and Apolar Hydration in Densely Grafted Cationic Brushes and Counterions with Large Mobilities

R Ishraaq, TS Akash, A Bera, S Das - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We employ an all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulation framework to unravel water
microstructure and ion properties for cationic [poly (2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyl) …

The evolution of hydrogen bond network in nafion via molecular dynamics simulation

R Cui, S Li, C Yu, Y Zhou - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
The hydrogen bond network (HBN) is of primary importance to the proton transport in Nafion.
However, the evolution of the HBN in Nafion with water content and the underlying …

Hydrogen Bonding Inside Anionic Polymeric Brush Layer: Machine Learning-Driven Exploration of the Relative Roles of the Polymer Steric Effect, Charging, and Type …

A Bera, TS Akash, R Ishraaq, TH Pial, S Das - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
This paper employs a combination of all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and
unsupervised machine learning (ML) for studying the water–water hydrogen bonds (HBs) …

Machine learning enabled quantification of the hydrogen bonds inside the polyelectrolyte brush layer probed using all-atom molecular dynamics simulations

TH Pial, S Das - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The configuration of densely grafted charged polyelectrolyte (PE) brushes is strongly
dictated by the properties and behavior of the counterions that screen the PE brush charges …

All-atom molecular dynamics simulations of the temperature response of densely grafted polyelectrolyte brushes

HS Sachar, BS Chava, TH Pial, S Das - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
Water acts a “good” solvent for most polyelectrolyte (PE) systems due to its high dielectric
strength. Theoretical and experimental studies have highlighted some remarkably …

Role of dielectric drag in circumventing the solubility-diffusivity trade-off in zwitterionic copolymer membranes

HS Sachar, Z Zhang, N Marioni, ES Zofchak… - ACS Macro …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recent experiments have revealed that random zwitterionic amphiphilic copolymer (r-ZAC)
membranes exhibit excellent Cl–/F–permselectivity circumventing the solubility-diffusivity …