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

Flow batteries are one of the most promising techniques for stationary energy storage
applications, benefiting from their high safety, high efficiency and long cycle life. As a key …

Lithium consumption is estimated to face a considerable rise in the next decade; thus,
finding new reproducible lithium resources such as brine deposits and seawater has …

Biological ion channels with delicate ion transport functions exist widely in living organisms.
Bioinspired solid‐state channels have emerged as promising platforms to mimic the working …

Water-rich hydrogels with tissue-like softness, especially ion conductive hydrogels with ion
signal transfer systems similar to biological areas, are promising soft electrode materials …

Designable block copolymer (BCP) membranes are emerging for reverse electrodialysis to
capture the salinity gradient energy between seawater and river water. However, present …

This article presents an invention of iontronic circuits to achieve effective electronic signal
manipulation base on paralleled single polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) nanochannels. The …

Investigation of ion transport through nanopores with highly overlapping electric double
layers is extremely challenging. This can be attributed to the non-linear Poisson–Boltzmann …

Hypothesis Nanofluidic diodes have attracted intense attention recently. Commonly used
materials to design these devices are membrane-based short nanopores and aligned …

The key advance that led to the digital revolution was the invention of the solid-state diode,
due to its ability to effectively rectify electronic current. Analogous, water-based diodes were …