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Zang S, Chen J, Yamauchi Y, Sharshir SW, Huang H, Yun J, Wang L, Wang C, Lin X, Melhi S, Kim M, Yuan Z. Moisture Power Generation: From Material Selection to Device Structure Optimization. ACS NANO 2024. [PMID: 39052842 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c01416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/27/2024]
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Moisture power generation (MPG) technology, producing clean and sustainable energy from a humid environment, has drawn significant attention and research efforts in recent years as a means of easing the energy crisis. Despite the rapid progress, MPG technology still faces numerous challenges with the most significant one being the low power-generating performance of individual MPG devices. In this review, we introduce the background and underlying principles of MPG technology while thoroughly explaining how the selection of suitable materials (carbons, polymers, inorganic salts, etc.) and the optimization of the device structure (pore structure, moisture gradient structure, functional group gradient structure, and electrode structure) can address the existing and anticipated challenges. Furthermore, this review highlights the major scientific and engineering hurdles on the way to advancing MPG technology and offers potential insights for the development of high-performance MPG systems.
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- Shuo Zang
- College of Materials Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Materials Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Department of Materials Process Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
- School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- College of Materials Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh 33516, Egypt
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- College of Materials Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Materials Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Minjiang University, Fuzhou 350108, China
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- College of Materials Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Materials Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Bisha, Bisha 61922, Saudi Arabia
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- College of Materials Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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The remarkable diversity of lymphocytes, essential components of the immune system, serves as an ingenious mechanism for maximizing the efficient utilization of limited host defense resources. While cell adhesion molecules, notably in gut-tropic T cells, play a central role in this mechanism, the counterbalancing molecular details have remained elusive. Conversely, we've uncovered the molecular pathways enabling extracellular vesicles secreted by lymphocytes to reach the gut's mucosal tissues, facilitating immunological regulation. This discovery sheds light on immune fine-tuning, offering insights into immune regulation mechanisms.
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- Yasunari Matsuzaka
- Division of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Center for Gene and Cell Therapy, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Administrative Section of Radiation Protection, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan
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- Administrative Section of Radiation Protection, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan
- Department of Mycobacteriology, Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan
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Dai J, Wilhelm KB, Bischoff AJ, Pereira JH, Dedeo MT, García-Almedina DM, Adams PD, Groves JT, Francis MB. A Membrane-Associated Light-Harvesting Model is Enabled by Functionalized Assemblies of Gene-Doubled TMV Proteins. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023; 19:e2207805. [PMID: 36811150 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202207805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Revised: 01/26/2023] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Photosynthetic light harvesting requires efficient energy transfer within dynamic networks of light-harvesting complexes embedded within phospholipid membranes. Artificial light-harvesting models are valuable tools for understanding the structural features underpinning energy absorption and transfer within chromophore arrays. Here, a method for attaching a protein-based light-harvesting model to a planar, fluid supported lipid bilayer (SLB) is developed. The protein model consists of the tobacco mosaic viral capsid proteins that are gene-doubled to create a tandem dimer (dTMV). Assemblies of dTMV break the facial symmetry of the double disk to allow for differentiation between the disk faces. A single reactive lysine residue is incorporated into the dTMV assemblies for the site-selective attachment of chromophores for light absorption. On the opposing dTMV face, a cysteine residue is incorporated for the bioconjugation of a peptide containing a polyhistidine tag for association with SLBs. The dual-modified dTMV complexes show significant association with SLBs and exhibit mobility on the bilayer. The techniques used herein offer a new method for protein-surface attachment and provide a platform for evaluating excited state energy transfer events in a dynamic, fully synthetic artificial light-harvesting system.
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- Jing Dai
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Technology Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, 94720, USA
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Technology Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, 94720, USA
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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