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 …

Environmental applications of engineered materials with nanoconfinement

S Zhang, T Hedtke, X Zhou, M Elimelech… - ACS ES&T …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Engineered nanoporous materials have been extensively employed in the environmental
field to take advantage of increased surface area and tunable size exclusion. Beyond those …

Engineered nanoconfinement accelerating spontaneous manganese-catalyzed degradation of organic contaminants

S Zhang, T Hedtke, L Wang, X Wang… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Manganese (III/IV) oxide minerals are known to spontaneously degrade organic pollutants in
nature. However, the kinetics are too slow to be useful for engineered water treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Confinement boosted heterogeneous advanced oxidation processes

H Dai, N Li, J Ye, J Zhao, X He, X Duan, B Yan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Confined catalysts with large surface areas and adjustable pore and channel sizes have
been recently used in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for water and wastewater …

Tannic acid modified single nanopore with multivalent metal ions recognition and ultra-trace level detection

K Zhan, Z Li, J Chen, Y Hou, J Zhang, R Sun, Z Bu… - Nano Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Artificial single nanopore as a promising tool for chemical and biological studies, such as
ionic detection, DNA sequencing, molecular sensing/separation, nanofluidics and …

Shape matters: Enhanced osmotic energy harvesting in bullet-shaped nanochannels

G Laucirica, AG Albesa, ME Toimil-Molares… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanofluidic reverse electrodialysis systems based on track-etched nanochannels are
promising devices for new eco-friendly ways of sustainable energy generation. In recent …

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 …

Triple-responsive drug nanocarrier: Magnetic core-shell nanoparticles of Fe3O4@ poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)-grafted-chitosan, synthesis and in vitro cytotoxicity …

S Moradi, R Najjar, H Hamishehkar, A Lotfi - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, synthesis, characterization and cytotoxicity evaluation of core-shell nanoparticles of
magnetic Fe 3 O 4-poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAAm) grafted with chitosan, as …

Polyelectrolyte-multivalent molecule complexes: physicochemical properties and applications

SE Herrera, ML Agazzi, E Apuzzo, ML Cortez… - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The complexation of polyelectrolytes with other oppositely charged structures gives rise to a
great variety of functional materials with potential applications in a wide spectrum of …