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Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao, Yiyuan Zhang, Liqiu Wang, Alan C. H. Tsang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assembly of vermiculite/SnO2 composite membranes with high ion selectivity for enhancing osmotic energy conversion performance

Frontiers in Materials
For 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, Zhibo Chen, Yating Zhang, Bichen Xie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Opportunistic energy trading between co-located energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks [PDF]

, 2013
Wireless sensor networks are increasingly using energy harvesting to extend their lifetime and avoid battery replacement. However, ambient energy sources typically exhibit temporal-spatial variation, and complex power management algorithms have been ...
Geoff V. Merrett, Nick R. Harris, Merrett, Geoff V., Harris, N.R., Jiang, Teng, Teng Jiang   +5 more
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Polyphenol‐Inspired Materials for Agricultural Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review outlines the use of polyphenol‐inspired materials for sustainable agriculture, highlighting their molecular design, interfacial assembly, structure–property relationships, and prospects toward precision agriculture, climate resilience, ecosystem protection, and circular bioeconomy strategies.
Haofu Liu, Omid Mazaheri, Zhixing Lin, Tianzheng Wang, Jingqu Chen, Yuang Gu, Xia Liang, Deli Chen, Frank Caruso   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of Membrane Thickness and Polyvinylpyrrolidone on Cellulose Acetate FO Membranes for Microalgae Harvesting

Annals of Tropical Research
Background: 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, Fathima Hamaza Haseem Deen, Munira Mohammad, Ma. Grace C. Sumaria   +3 more
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Tandem Osmotic Engine Based on Hydrogel Particles with Antipolyelectrolyte and Polyelectrolyte Effect Fuelled by Both Salinity Gradient Modes

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, Dong Suk Han, Sifani Zavahir, Jan Tkac, Peter Kasak   +4 more
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Advanced Materials for Biologics Delivery to Brain Tumors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Material innovation is central to unlocking the therapeutic potential of biologics against many central nervous system diseases, including brain cancer. By engineering carriers with controlled transport, targeting, and release properties, advanced materials can overcome the blood–brain barrier and tumor microenvironment, improving the delivery of ...
Yuran Feng, Yuxue Cao, Maria Kavallaris, Taskeen Janjua, Amirali Popat   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supercapacitor leakage in energy-harvesting sensor nodes: fact or fiction? [PDF]

, 2012
As interest in energy-harvesting sensor nodes continues to grow, the use of supercapacitors as energy stores or buffers is gaining popularity. The reasons for their use are numerous, and include their high power density, simple interfacing requirements ...
Geoff V. Merrett, Merrett, Geoff V., Weddell, Alex S., Alex S. Weddell   +3 more
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Nanofluidic osmotic power generation from CO2 with cellulose membranes

Green Carbon, 2023
The diffusion of chemical species down concentration gradient is a ubiquitous phenomenon that releases Gibbs free energy. Nanofluidic materials have shown great promise in harvesting the energy from ionic diffusion via the reverse electrodialysis process.
Chang Chen, Xueli Liu, Renxing Huang, Kuankuan Liu, Shangfa Pan, Junchao Lao, Qi Li, Jun Gao, Lei Jiang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human Energy Harvesting in the Urban Environment [PDF]

, 2015
The overall aim of the thesis was to provide a holistic view of the potential for electrical energy generation from harvesting of human mechanical work in the urban environment.
Partridge, JS
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