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 …

Unlocking the potential of polymeric desalination membranes by understanding molecular-level interactions and transport mechanisms

TR Nickerson, EN Antonio, DP McNally, MF Toney… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Polyamide reverse osmosis (PA-RO) membranes achieve remarkably high water
permeability and salt rejection, making them a key technology for addressing water …

Physics-informed deep learning for multi-species membrane separations

D Rehman, JH Lienhard - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional continuum models for ion transport across polyamide membranes require
solving partial differential equations (PDEs). These models typically introduce a host of …

Essence of the Giant Reduction of Power Density in Osmotic Energy Conversion in Porous Membranes: Importance of Testing Area

CY Lin, SF Chang, KT Kuo, S Garner… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Harvesting osmotic energy through nanofluidic devices with diverse materials has received
considerable attention in recent years. Often, a small testing area on a membrane was …

Nanoscale pore–pore coupling effect on ion transport through ordered porous monolayers

J Yang, B Tu, M Fang, L Li, Z Tang - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Distinct from the conventional view that nanopores are considered independent channels for
mass transport, recent study on the covalent organic framework (COF)-based monolayers …

Ionic conductivity of a solid polymer electrolyte confined in nanopores

CH Tu, L Veith, HJ Butt, G Floudas - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Using in situ nanodielectric spectroscopy, we investigate if and how the ionic conductivity of
the archetypal polymer electrolyte poly (ethylene oxide)/lithium bis (trifluoromethane …

Ion-specific nanoconfinement effect in multilayered graphene membranes: A combined nuclear magnetic resonance and computational study

D Liu, Z Xiong, P Wang, Q Liang, H Zhu, JZ Liu… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ion adsorption within nanopores is involved in numerous applications. However, a
comprehensive understanding of the fundamental relationship between in-pore ion …

Physics-constrained neural differential equations for learning multi-ionic transport

D Rehman, JH Lienhard - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.04594, 2023 - arxiv.org
Continuum models for ion transport through polyamide nanopores require solving partial
differential equations (PDEs) through complex pore geometries. Resolving spatiotemporal …

Ion filling of a one-dimensional nanofluidic channel in the interaction confinement regime

P Robin, A Delahais, L Bocquet… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Ion transport measurements are widely used as an indirect probe for various properties of
confined electrolytes. It is generally assumed that the ion concentration in a nanoscale …

Demixing of Polymerized Ionic Liquid/Ionic Liquid Mixtures by Infiltration in Nanopores

Y Dong, M Steinhart, HJ Butt, G Floudas - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ion transport through membrane nanopores is pertinent to several applications, including
water desalination and energy harvesting. We synthesized a series of polymerized ionic …