With the advance of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology, significant progress
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A great technological challenge facing our global future is the development of a secure,
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Osmotic energy represents a widespread and reliable source of renewable energy with
minimal daily variability. The key technological bottleneck for osmotic electricity is that …

In nature, hierarchically assembled nanoscale ionic conductors, such as ion channels and
ion pumps, become the structural and functional basis of bioelectric phenomena. Recently …

Inspired by biological systems that have the inherent skill to generate considerable
bioelectricity from the salt content in fluids with highly selective ion channels and pumps on …

Abstract “Salinity energy” stored as the salinity difference between seawater and freshwater
is a large-scale renewable resource that can be harvested and converted to electricity, but …

The maturation of nanotechnology has revealed it to be a unique and distinct discipline
rather than a specialization within a larger field. Its textbook cannot afford to be a chemistry …

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Surfaces with controllable liquid wettability and related functions have gained increasing
attention from interfacial scientists due to the high demand of fundamental research and …

The abundant pigment-protein membrane complex photosystem-I (PS-I) is at the heart of the
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