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 …

Fluids and electrolytes under confinement in single-digit nanopores

NR Aluru, F Aydin, MZ Bazant, D Blankschtein… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Confined fluids and electrolyte solutions in nanopores exhibit rich and surprising physics
and chemistry that impact the mass transport and energy efficiency in many important …

Mechanisms and models for water transport in reverse osmosis membranes: history, critical assessment, and recent developments

M Heiranian, H Fan, L Wang, X Lu… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Water scarcity is one of the greatest societal challenges facing humanity. Reverse osmosis
(RO) desalination, a widely used membrane-based technology, has proven to be effective to …

[HTML][HTML] A review on underground hydrogen storage: Insight into geological sites, influencing factors and future outlook

NS Muhammed, B Haq, D Al Shehri, A Al-Ahmed… - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Without remorse, fossil fuels have made a huge contribution to global development in all of
its forms. However, the recent scientific outlooks are currently shifting as more research is …

Ultrafast seawater desalination with covalent organic framework membranes

M Wang, P Zhang, X Liang, J Zhao, Y Liu, Y Cao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The lack of access to clean water for billions of people represents a fundamental global
sustainability challenge that must be addressed. Seawater desalination using membrane …

Nanofluidics for osmotic energy conversion

Z Zhang, L Wen, L Jiang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
The osmotic pressure difference between river water and seawater is a promising source of
renewable energy. However, current osmotic energy conversion processes show limited …

Long-term memory and synapse-like dynamics in two-dimensional nanofluidic channels

P Robin, T Emmerich, A Ismail, A Niguès, Y You… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Fine-tuned ion transport across nanoscale pores is key to many biological processes,
including neurotransmission. Recent advances have enabled the confinement of water and …

Harvesting blue energy based on salinity and temperature gradient: challenges, solutions, and opportunities

M Rastgar, K Moradi, C Burroughs, A Hemmati… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with power generation from fossil fuel combustion
account for 25% of global emissions and, thus, contribute greatly to climate change …

Underground hydrogen storage: Influencing parameters and future outlook

B Pan, X Yin, Y Ju, S Iglauer - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Underground hydrogen storage (UHS) is a promising technology with which large quantities
of H 2 can potentially be stored in the subsurface safely, economically and efficiently. As …

Fluids at the nanoscale: from continuum to subcontinuum transport

N Kavokine, RR Netz, L Bocquet - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Nanofluidics has firmly established itself as a new field in fluid mechanics, as novel
properties have been shown to emerge in fluids at the nanometric scale. Thanks to recent …