Electrochemical methods for water purification, ion separations, and energy conversion

MA Alkhadra, X Su, ME Suss, H Tian, EN Guyes… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Agricultural development, extensive industrialization, and rapid growth of the global
population have inadvertently been accompanied by environmental pollution. Water …

Moisture‐enabled electricity generation: from physics and materials to self‐powered applications

D Shen, WW Duley, P Peng, M **ao, J Feng… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The exploration of the utilization of sustainable, green energy represents one way in which it
is possible to ameliorate the growing threat of the global environmental issues and the crisis …

Influence of tribology on global energy consumption, costs and emissions

K Holmberg, A Erdemir - Friction, 2017 - Springer
Calculations of the impact of friction and wear on energy consumption, economic
expenditure, and CO 2 emissions are presented on a global scale. This impact study covers …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging design principles, materials, and applications for moisture-enabled electric generation

Z Sun, X Wen, L Wang, D Ji, X Qin, J Yu… - EScience, 2022 - Elsevier
Smart generators that collect energy from the ambient environment are a new approach for
meeting growing global energy needs. Moisture is one of the most abundant resources in …

Magnetic nanoparticles: design and characterization, toxicity and biocompatibility, pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

LH Reddy, JL Arias, J Nicolas, P Couvreur - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
In recent years, considerable efforts have been spent in the development of magnetic
nanoparticles (MNPs), the understanding of their behavior, and the improvement of their …

Nanofluidics, from bulk to interfaces

L Bocquet, E Charlaix - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanofluidics has emerged recently in the footsteps of microfluidics, following the quest for
scale reduction inherent to nanotechnologies. By definition, nanofluidics explores transport …

Slip on superhydrophobic surfaces

JP Rothstein - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
This review discusses the use of the combination of surface roughness and hydrophobicity
for engineering large slip at the fluid-solid interface. These superhydrophobic surfaces were …

Towards an understanding of induced-charge electrokinetics at large applied voltages in concentrated solutions

MZ Bazant, MS Kilic, BD Storey, A Ajdari - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2009 - Elsevier
The venerable theory of electrokinetic phenomena rests on the hypothesis of a dilute
solution of point-like ions in quasi-equilibrium with a weakly charged surface, whose …

Steric effects in the dynamics of electrolytes at large applied voltages. I. Double-layer charging

MS Kilic, MZ Bazant, A Ajdari - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and …, 2007 - APS
The classical Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory of electrolytes assumes a dilute solution of
point charges with mean-field electrostatic forces. Even for very dilute solutions, however, it …