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 …

Electrochemical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) are devices allowing the storage or
production of electricity. They function through the adsorption of ions from an electrolyte on …

Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have exciting properties such as nonvolatility, large
electrochemical windows, and remarkable variety, drawing much interest in energy storage …

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 …

The dielectric constant ε of interfacial water has been predicted to be smaller than that of
bulk water (ε≈ 80) because the rotational freedom of water dipoles is expected to decrease …

Recent advances in nanofluidics have enabled the confinement of water down to a single
molecular layer. Such monolayer electrolytes show promise in achieving bioinspired …

Safe and clean water is of pivotal importance to all living species and the ecosystem on
earth. However, the accelerating economy and industrialization of mankind generate water …

In this Focus Review, we put the spotlight on very recent insights into the fascinating world of
wet chemistry in the realm offered by nanoconfinement of water in mechanically rather rigid …

Despite more than a century of research, drying shrinkage still causes unwanted stresses
and cracks in our concrete infrastructures. This is partly due to the lack of understanding of …

Over the past decade, the ability to reduce the dimensions of fluidic devices to the
nanometre scale (by using nanotubes,,,–or nanopores,,,,–, for example) has led to the …