The osmotic pressure difference between river water and seawater is a promising source of
renewable energy. However, current osmotic energy conversion processes show limited …

The development and optimization of high‐performance anode materials for alkali metal ion
batteries is crucial for the green energy evolution. Atomic scale computational modeling …

Salinity gradients have been identified as promising clean, renewable and non-intermittent
sources of energy—so-called blue energy. However, the low efficiency of current harvesting …

Graphene oxide is a rising star among 2D materials, yet its interaction with liquid water
remains a fundamentally open question: experimental characterization at the atomic scale is …

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) monolayers have attracted considerable interest as
atomically thin sp 2-hybridized sheets that are readily synthesized on various metal …

Membrane-based applications such as osmotic power generation, desalination and
molecular separation would benefit from decreasing water friction in nanoscale channels …

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanomaterials, such as boron nitride nanotubes, boron
nitride nanofibers, and boron nitride nanosheets, are among the most promising inorganic …

Nowadays, two‐dimensional materials have many applications in materials science. As a
novel two‐dimensional layered material, MXene possesses distinct structural, electronic …

MXenes represent a burgeoning family of two-dimensional (2D) functional materials with a
variety of applications that highly rely on termination-mediated surface functionalization, but …

The transport of fluid and ions across nanotubes or nanochannels has attracted great
attention due to the ultrahigh energy power density and slip length, with applications in …