Agricultural development, extensive industrialization, and rapid growth of the global
population have inadvertently been accompanied by environmental pollution. Water …

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

Artificial ion channels with ion permeability and selectivity comparable to their biological
counterparts are highly desired for efficient separation, biosensing, and energy conversion …

The Zn anode in aqueous zinc‐ion batteries (AZIBs) is severely impeded by uncontrolled
dendrite growth and promiscuous water‐induced side reactions, resulting in low Coulombic …

Bioinspired control of ion transport at the subnanoscale has become a major focus in the
fields of nanofluidics and membrane separation. It is fundamentally important to achieve …

Osmotic power generation, the extraction of power from mixing salt solutions of different
concentrations, can provide an efficient power source for both nanoscale and industrial-level …

Making use of the osmotic pressure difference between fresh water and seawater is an
attractive, renewable and clean way to generate power and is known as 'blue energy' …

Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is an emerging membrane based technology that captures
electricity from controlled mixing of two water streams of different salinities. To date, great …

The emerging heterogeneous membranes show unprecedented superiority in harvesting
the osmotic energy between ionic solutions of different salinity. However, the power …

The design of ion‐selective membranes is the key towards efficient reverse electrodialysis‐
based osmotic power conversion. The tradeoff between ion selectivity (output voltage) and …