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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A tree‐inspired hydrogel interfacial reactor couples solar evaporation with photocatalysis for simultaneous desalination and waste water treatment. The bilayer design achieves 2.14 kg·m−2·h−1 evaporation rate with 79% dye degradation under one sun, demonstrating that photothermal heating and evaporation induced pollutant enrichment create a self ...
Yan Zhao +4 more
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Protocol for preparation of solid-state multipore osmotic power generators
STAR Protocols, 2023 Summary: Nanopore is an emerging energy-harvesting device that can create electricity directly from salt solutions. Here, we present a protocol for the preparation and structure optimization of solid-state multipore osmotic power generators.
Makusu Tsutsui +4 more
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Biomimetic Microfractals Based Flexible Triboelectric Nanogenerators
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A leaf‐skeleton‐based microfractal architecture is integrated with guided CuNW networks and biomimetic triboelectric polymer layers, enabling breathable, flexible, and material‐efficient triboelectric nanogenerators. The resulting system combines enhanced charge generation and charge transport, offering potential for next‐generation self‐powered ...
Amit Barua +7 more
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Plasma‐oxidized 2D MXenes subnanochannel membrane for high‐performance osmotic energy conversion
Carbon EnergyNanofluidic channels inspired by electric eels open a new era of efficient harvesting of clean blue osmotic energy from salinity gradients. Limited by less charge and weak ion selectivity of the raw material itself, energy conversion through nanofluidic ...
Zhengmao Ding +7 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This review examines how cellular behavior is regulated by mechanical cues transmitted through soft biomaterials, from single‐cell mechanosensing to tissue‐level adaptation. It highlights why physiological relevance, rather than model complexity alone, is critical for translational mechanobiology and introduces a scoring framework linking material ...
Mathias Polz +9 more
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Frontiers in MaterialsFor osmotic energy harvesting based on nanofluidic membranes, aqueous instability, less-than-optimal ion selectivity, and moderately high internal resistance can somewhat restrict its performance advancement.
Yuyang Fu +3 more
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Gels, 2021 In this study, we propose a new approach to attain energy by salinity gradient engines with pistons based on hydrogels possessing polyelectrolyte and antipolyelectrolyte effects in a tandem arrangement, providing energy in each salinity gradient mode in ...
Anjali Cheeramthodi Padmanabhan +4 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Self‐standing, strong sulfonated covalent organic framework membranes with varied ionic‐group density are developed for osmotic energy conversion. Optimized charge‐governed nanochannels enable highly selective ion transport, delivering a power density of 24.53 W m−2 under seawater/freshwater salinity gradients.
Xi Ma +5 more
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Annals of Tropical ResearchBackground: Efficient and low-energy microalgae harvesting is essential for sustainable biofuel production. Forward osmosis (FO) has emerged as a promising alternative for microalgae separation because it operates with low energy requirements driven by ...
Aida Isma Mohamad Idris +3 more
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Sustainable Approaches to Incorporate Plant-Based Biomaterials in Power Generation
Solids, 2023 Biomass-derived materials have traditionally been used to generate electrical energy through the combustion of their organic components. However, within the past few years, certain common biomass compounds, especially plant-based products such as ...
Antonio Ruiz-Gonzalez +2 more
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