Capacitive mixing for harvesting the free energy of solutions at different concentrations

RA Rica, R Ziano, D Salerno, F Mantegazza… - Entropy, 2013 - mdpi.com
An enormous dissipation of the order of 2 kJ/L takes place during the natural mixing process
of fresh river water entering the salty sea.“Capacitive mixing” is a promising technique to …

Electrokinetic phenomena in concentrated disperse systems: general problem formulation and spherical cell approach

EK Zholkovskij, JH Masliyah, VN Shilov… - Advances in colloid and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Electrokinetic Phenomena in concentrated disperse and colloid systems have been studied
employing Spherical Cell Approach for over three decades. The critical review of the …

Elucidation of the pH-dependent electric double layer structure at the silica/water interface using heterodyne-detected vibrational sum frequency generation …

F Wei, S Urashima, S Nihonyanagi… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The silica/water interface is one of the most abundant charged interfaces in natural
environments, and the elucidation of the water structure at the silica/water interface is …

Influence of surface conductivity on the apparent zeta potential of amorphous silica nanoparticles

P Leroy, N Devau, A Revil, M Bizi - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2013 - Elsevier
Zeta potential is a physicochemical parameter of particular importance in describing ion
adsorption and double layer interactions between charged particles. However, for metal …

Influence of surface conductivity on the apparent zeta potential of TiO2 nanoparticles

P Leroy, C Tournassat, M Bizi - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2011 - Elsevier
Zeta potential is a physico-chemical parameter of particular importance in describing ion
adsorption and electrostatic interactions between charged particles. Nevertheless, this …

[HTML][HTML] Electro-diffusion of ions in porous electrodes for capacitive extraction of renewable energy from salinity differences

RA Rica, R Ziano, D Salerno, F Mantegazza… - Electrochimica …, 2013 - Elsevier
One dimensional theory of the electro-diffusion of ions in activated carbon porous electrodes
is applied to describe the dynamic cycle of the capacitive mixing (CAPMIX) based on the …

Ions transport and adsorption mechanisms in porous electrodes during capacitive-mixing double layer expansion (CDLE)

RA Rica, D Brogioli, R Ziano, D Salerno… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A model of the electro-diffusion of ions in porous electrodes is applied to analyze the
dynamics of capacitive-mixing extraction of energy from salinity gradients with carbon …

Noncovalent magnetic control and reversible recovery of graphene oxide using iron oxide and magnetic surfactants

TM McCoy, P Brown, J Eastoe… - ACS applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The unique charging properties of graphene oxide (GO) are exploited in the preparation of a
range of noncovalent magnetic GO materials, using microparticles, nanoparticles, and …

Au–Ag core–shell nanoparticles with controllable shell thicknesses for the detection of adenosine by surface enhanced Raman scattering

FH Ko, MR Tai, FK Liu, YC Chang - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study, we report a feasible aqueous chemical method to synthesize Au core–Ag shell
nanoparticles (NPs) by seeding growth approach. The concentration of Au NPs plays an …

Revealing roles of competing local structural orderings in crystallization of polymorphic systems

M Li, Y Chen, H Tanaka, P Tan - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
Most systems have more than two stable crystalline states in the phase diagram, which is
known as polymorphism. Crystallization in such a system is often under strong influence of …