Nanofluidic osmotic power generators–advanced nanoporous membranes and nanochannels for blue energy harvesting

G Laucirica, ME Toimil-Molares, C Trautmann… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The increase of energy demand added to the concern for environmental pollution linked to
energy generation based on the combustion of fossil fuels has motivated the study and …

Biomimetic solid-state nanochannels for chemical and biological sensing applications

G Laucirica, YT Terrones, V Cayón, ML Cortez… - TrAC Trends in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biomimetic solid-state nanochannels enable new modalities for biosensing. In the last
decade, these nanofluidic architectures have been widely studied due to their rapid and …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Sensing with ion current rectifying solid-state nanopores

D Duleba, RP Johnson - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
This review gives a current opinion on the state of the art of ion rectifying solid-state
nanopore sensors, as well as on the recent directions and challenges of the field, focusing in …

Spinning continuous high-strength bacterial cellulose hydrogel fibers for multifunctional bioelectronic interfaces

M Zhang, S Chen, N Sheng, B Wang, Z Wu… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic conductive hydrogel fibers have attracted much attention as ideal optoelectronic
physiological probes. However, their application is limited by their biocompatibility problem …

Role of outer surface probes on bullet-shaped asymmetric solid-state nanochannels for lysozyme protein sensing

W Zhang, M Chen, Q Ma, Z Si, S Jin, Q Du… - Analytical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Artificial solid-state nanochannels featuring precise partitions present a highly promising
platform for biomarker detection. While the significance of probes on the outer surface (POS) …

Manipulating ion transport regimes in nanomembranes via a “pore-in-pore” approach enabled by the synergy of metal–organic frameworks and solid-state …

JA Allegretto, G Laucirica, AL Huamani, MF Wagner… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Solid-state nanochannels (SSNs) have emerged as promising platforms for controlling ionic
transport at the nanoscale. SSNs are highly versatile, and this feature can be enhanced …

Bioinspired Solid‐State Nanochannel Sensors: From Ionic Current Signals, Current, and Fluorescence Dual Signals to Faraday Current Signals

D Zhang, X Zhang - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired from bioprotein channels of living organisms, constructing “abiotic” analogues, solid‐
state nanochannels, to achieve “smart” sensing towards various targets, is highly seductive …