Advanced ion transfer materials in electro-driven membrane processes for sustainable ion-resource extraction and recovery

Y Zhao, N Mamrol, WA Tarpeh, X Yang, C Gao… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
The conversion of industrial wastewater, salt-lakes and seawater into the valuable ionic
resources is a critical challenge for sustainable global development. Electro-driven …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in electrodialysis technologies for recovering critical minerals from unconventional sources

G Sim, M Pishnamazi, D Seo, SR Kong, J Lee… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The global challenge of climate change and the pursuit of carbon neutrality drive the
demand for clean energy technologies, increasing the need for critical minerals. However …

Experimental models of primitive cellular compartments: encapsulation, growth, and division

MM Hanczyc, SM Fujikawa, JW Szostak - Science, 2003 - science.org
The clay montmorillonite is known to catalyze the polymerization of RNA from activated
ribonucleotides. Here we report that montmorillonite accelerates the spontaneous …

“Raisin bun”-type composite spheres of silica and semiconductor nanocrystals

AL Rogach, D Nagesha, JW Ostrander… - Chemistry of …, 2000 - ACS Publications
CdTe nanocrystals capped with 1-mercapto-2, 3-propandiol, CdSe nanocrystals capped
with sodium citrate, and core− shell CdSe/CdS nanocrystals capped with sodium citrate …

Quantitative nanomechanical analysis of small extracellular vesicles for tumor malignancy indication

S Ye, W Li, H Wang, L Zhu, C Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The nanomechanical properties of tumor‐derived small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are
essential to cancer progression. Here, nanoindentation is utilized on atomic force …

Overcharging in colloids: beyond the Poisson–Boltzmann approach

M Quesada‐Pérez, E González‐Tovar… - …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
A broad range of manufactured products and biological fluids are colloids. The ability to
understand and control the processes (of scientific, technological and industrial interest) in …

Dynamic reconfiguration of subcompartment architectures in artificial cells

G Zubaite, JW Hindley, O Ces, Y Elani - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Artificial cells are minimal structures constructed from biomolecular building blocks designed
to mimic cellular processes, behaviors, and architectures. One near-ubiquitous feature of …

X-ray diffractive imaging of highly ionized helium nanodroplets

AJ Feinberg, F Laimer, RMP Tanyag, B Senfftleben… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Finding the lowest energy configuration of N unit charges on a sphere, known as Thomson's
problem, is a long-standing query which has only been studied via numerical simulations …

Electrical properties of supported lipid bilayer membranes

G Wiegand, N Arribas-Layton… - The Journal of …, 2002 - ACS Publications
This paper describes a study of the electrical properties of supported lipid bilayer
membranes on semiconductor and gold surfaces. The study is aimed to foster the …

Biophysical approaches to protein-induced membrane deformations in trafficking

P Sens, L Johannes, P Bassereau - Current opinion in cell biology, 2008 - Elsevier
Membrane traffic requires membrane deformation to generate vesicles and tubules. Strong
evidence suggests that assembly of curvature-active proteins can drive such membrane …