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Ishizaki-Betchaku Y, Kumakura N, Yamamoto S, Nagano S, Mitsuishi M. Ultrathin Ionic Diodes with Electrostatically Heterogeneous Hybrid Interfaces of Nanoporous SiO 2 Nanofilms and Polymer Layer-by-Layer Multilayers. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024; 20:e2404306. [PMID: 38958070 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202404306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2024] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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Nanofluidic ionic diodes have attracted much attention due to their unique functions as unidirectional ion transportation ability and promising applications from molecular sensing, and energy harvesting to emerging neuromorphic devices. However, it remains a challenge to fabricate diode-like nanofluidic systems with ultrathin film thickness <100 nm. Herein the formation of ultrathin ionic diodes from hybrid nanoassemblies of nanoporous (NP) SiO2 nanofilms and polyelectrolyte layer-by-layer (LbL) multilayers is described. Ultrathin ionic diodes are prepared by integrating polyelectrolyte multilayers onto photo-oxidized NP SiO2 nanofilms obtained from silsesquioxane-containing block copolymer thin films as a template. The obtained ultrathin ionic diodes exhibit ion current rectification (ICR) properties with high ICR factor = ≈20 under low ionic strength and asymmetric pH conditions. It is concluded that this ICR behavior arises from effective ion accumulation and depletion at the interface of NP SiO2 nanofilms and LbL multilayers attributed to high ion selectivity by combining the experimental data and theoretical calculations using finite element methods. These results demonstrate that the hybrid nano assemblies of NP SiO2 nanofilms and polyelectrolyte LbL multilayers have potential applications for (bio)sensing materials and integrated ionic circuits for seamless connection of human-machine interfaces.
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- Yuya Ishizaki-Betchaku
- Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-11 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo, 171-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-11 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-11 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo, 171-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-11 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan
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Gogoi A, Neyts EC, Peeters FM. Reduction-enhanced water flux through layered graphene oxide (GO) membranes stabilized with H 3O + and OH - ions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:10265-10272. [PMID: 38497764 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04097f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
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Graphene oxide (GO) is one of the most promising candidates for next generation of atomically thin membranes. Nevertheless, one of the major issues for real world application of GO membranes is their undesirable swelling in an aqueous environment. Recently, we demonstrated that generation of H3O+ and OH- ions (e.g., with an external electric field) in the interlayer gallery could impart aqueous stability to the layered GO membranes (A. Gogoi, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 34946). This, however, compromises the water flux through the membrane. In this study, we report on reducing the GO nanosheets as a solution to this issue. With the reduction of the GO nanosheets, the water flux through the layered GO membrane initially increases and then decreases again beyond a certain degree of reduction. Here, two key factors are at play. Firstly, the instability of the H-bond network between water molecules and the GO nanosheets, which increases the water flux. Secondly, the pore size reduction in the interlayer gallery of the membranes, which decreases the water flux. We also observe a significant improvement in the salt rejection of the membranes, due to the dissociation of water molecules in the interlayer gallery. In particular, for the case of 10% water dissociation, the water flux through the membranes can be enhanced without altering its selectivity. This is an encouraging observation as it breaks the traditional tradeoff between water flux and salt rejection of a membrane.
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- Abhijit Gogoi
- PLASMANT, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Antwerp 2610, Belgium.
- Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp 2020, Belgium
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- PLASMANT, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Antwerp 2610, Belgium.
- NANOlab Center of Excellence, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp 2020, Belgium
- Departamento de Fisica, Caixa Postal 6030, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-70, Ceará, Brazil
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Alinia Z, Akbarzadeh H, Mohammadi Zonoz F, Tayebee R. Enhancing the seawater desalination performance of multilayer reduced graphene oxide membranes by introducing in-plane nanopores: a molecular dynamics simulation study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:9722-9732. [PMID: 38470395 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02967k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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In this study, using MD simulation, the effect of creating in-plane nanopores in a reduced graphene oxide (rGO) membrane and the formation of a reduced nanoporous graphene oxide (rNPGO) membrane is proposed to increase salt rejection and water flux. To this end, the desalination performance of r1NPGO, r2NPGO and r4NPGO membranes, which have 1, 2 and 4 pore(s), respectively, with a diameter of 0.9 nm and the r1NPGO-3 nm membrane, which has 1 pore with an approximate diameter of 3.0 nm, was investigated and compared from a molecular point of view. The simulation results show that in the rNPGO membranes, by increasing the number of pores from 1 to 4, water flux increases by ∼6 times compared to the rGO membrane. Meanwhile, upon increasing the pore size from 0.9 to 3.0 nm, water flux is enhanced by ∼16 times compared to the rGO membrane. The simulation results also demonstrate that the rGO membrane has two paths for water penetration, which are called the interlayer pathway and in-slit pathway. Moreover, pores in the rNPGO membranes provide another additional path for water transfer by shortening the lateral size of the membranes. This path is referred to as the in-pore pathway. By increasing the size of the pore in the r1NPGO-3 nm membrane, the contribution of the in-pore pathway increases and plays an important role. Furthermore, the simulation results show that in all rGO and rNPGO membranes, the interlayer space acts as a barrier for ions. Therefore, complete salt rejection is observed. Interestingly, by increasing the pore size in the r1NPGO-3 nm membrane, this membrane still maintains complete salt rejection. The observed phenomenon can be a result of very high water flux in this membrane. By increasing water flux, the presence of water molecules around Na+ and Cl- ions decreases. As a result, the formation of Na+Cl- ionic clusters is strengthened in such a way that these clusters do not have the ability to pass through large pores of 3.0 nm.
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- Z Alinia
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar 96179-76487, Iran.
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar 96179-76487, Iran.
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Kharazmi University, Tehran 15719-14911, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar 96179-76487, Iran.
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar 96179-76487, Iran.
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Zhao Y, Su Z, Zhang X, Wu D, Wu Y, Li G. Recent advances in nanopore-based analysis for carbohydrates and glycoconjugates. ANALYTICAL METHODS : ADVANCING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 2024; 16:1454-1467. [PMID: 38415741 DOI: 10.1039/d3ay02040a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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Saccharides are not only the basic constituents and nutrients of living organisms, but also participate in various life activities, and play important roles in cell recognition, immune regulation, development, cancer, etc. The analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates is a necessary means to study their transformations and physiological roles in living organisms. Existing detection techniques can hardly meet the requirements for the analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates in complex matrices as they are expensive, involve complex derivatization, and are time-consuming. Nanopore sensing technology, which is amplification-free and label-free, and is a high-throughput process, provides a new solution for the identification and sequencing of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates. This review highlights recent advances in novel nanopore-based single-molecule sensing technologies for the detection of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates and discusses the advantages and challenges of nanopore sensing technologies. Finally, current issues and future perspectives are discussed with the aim of improving the performance of nanopores in complex media diagnostic applications, as well as providing a new direction for the quantification of glycan chains and the study of glycan chain properties and functions.
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- Yan Zhao
- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710021, China.
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710021, China.
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710021, China.
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- Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 19 Chlorine Gardens, Belfast, BT9 5DL, UK
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710021, China.
- NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, Food Safety Research Unit (2019RU014) of Chinese Academy of Medical Science, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing 100021, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710021, China.
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Rissanou A, Konstantinou A, Karatasos K. Morphology and Dynamics in Hydrated Graphene Oxide/Branched Poly(ethyleneimine) Nanocomposites: An In Silico Investigation. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:1865. [PMID: 37368295 DOI: 10.3390/nano13121865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2023] [Revised: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Graphene oxide (GO)-branched poly(ethyleneimine) (BPEI) hydrated mixtures were studied by means of fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to assess the effects of the size of polymers and the composition on the morphology of the complexes, the energetics of the systems and the dynamics of water and ions within composites. The presence of cationic polymers of both generations hindered the formation of stacked GO conformations, leading to a disordered porous structure. The smaller polymer was found to be more efficient at separating the GO flakes due to its more efficient packing. The variation in the relative content of the polymeric and the GO moieties provided indications for the existence of an optimal composition in which interaction between the two components was more favorable, implying more stable structures. The large number of hydrogen-bonding donors afforded by the branched molecules resulted in a preferential association with water and hindered its access to the surface of the GO flakes, particularly in polymer-rich systems. The mapping of water translational dynamics revealed the existence of populations with distinctly different mobilities, depending upon the state of their association. The average rate of water transport was found to depend sensitively on the mobility of the freely to move molecules, which was varied strongly with composition. The rate of ionic transport was found to be very limited below a threshold in terms of polymer content. Both, water diffusivity and ionic transport were enhanced in the systems with the larger branched polymers, particularly with a lower polymer content, due to the higher availability of free volume for the respective moieties. The detail afforded in the present work provides a new insight for the fabrication of BPEI/GO composites with a controlled microstructure, enhanced stability and adjustable water transport and ionic mobility.
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- Anastassia Rissanou
- Theoretical & Physical Chemistry Institute, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Constantinou Avenue, 11635 Athens, Greece
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- Chemical Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Chemical Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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Yi W, Zhang C, Zhang Q, Zhang C, Lu Y, Yi L, Wang X. Solid-State Nanopore/Nanochannel Sensing of Single Entities. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2023; 381:13. [PMID: 37103594 DOI: 10.1007/s41061-023-00425-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/07/2023] [Indexed: 04/28/2023]
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Solid-state nanopores/nanochannels, with their high stability, tunable geometry, and controllable surface chemistry, have recently become an important tool for constructing biosensors. Compared with traditional biosensors, biosensors constructed with solid-state nanopores/nanochannels exhibit significant advantages of high sensitivity, high specificity, and high spatiotemporal resolution in the detection single entities (such as single molecules, single particles, and single cells) due to their unique nanoconfined space-induced target enrichment effect. Generally, the solid-state nanopore/nanochannel modification method is the inner wall modification, and the detection principles are the resistive pulse method and the steady-state ion current method. During the detection process, solid-state nanopore/nanochannel is easily blocked by single entities, and interfering substances easily enter the solid-state nanopore/nanochannel to generate interference signals, resulting in inaccurate measurement results. In addition, the problem of low flux in the detection process of solid-state nanopore/nanochannel, these defects limit the application of solid-state nanopore/nanochannel. In this review, we introduce the preparation and functionalization of solid-state nanopore/nanochannel, the research progress in the field of single entities sensing, and the novel sensing strategies on solving the above problems in solid-state nanopore/nanochannel single-entity sensing. At the same time, the challenges and prospects of solid-state nanopore/nanochannel for single-entity electrochemical sensing are also discussed.
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- Wei Yi
- School of Biology and Chemistry, Minzu Normal University of Xingyi, Xingyi, 562400, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Biology and Chemistry, Minzu Normal University of Xingyi, Xingyi, 562400, People's Republic of China
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- School of Biology and Chemistry, Minzu Normal University of Xingyi, Xingyi, 562400, People's Republic of China
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, 314001, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friendly Chemistry and Applications of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Electrical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang, 421001, People's Republic of China.
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Pathan S, Islam SS, Sen Gupta R, Maity B, Reddy PR, Mandal S, Anki Reddy K, Bose S. Fundamental Understanding of Ultrathin, Highly Stable Self-Assembled Liquid Crystalline Graphene Oxide Membranes Leading to Precise Molecular Sieving through Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics. ACS NANO 2023; 17:7272-7284. [PMID: 37036338 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c10300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Self-assembled graphene oxide lyotropic liquid crystal (GO LLC) structures are mostly formed in aqueous medium; however, most GO derivatives are water insoluble, so processing GO LLCs in water poses a practical limitation. The use of polar aprotic solvent (like dimethyl sulfoxide) for the formation of GO LLC structures would be interesting, because it would allow incorporating additives, like photoinitiators or cross-linkers, or blending with polymers that are insoluble in water, which hence would expand its scope. The well-balanced electrostatic interaction between DMSO and GO can promote and stabilize the GO nanosheets' alignment even at lower concentrations. With this in mind, herein we report mechanically robust, chlorine-tolerant, self-assembled nanostructured GO membranes for precise molecular sieving. Small-angle X-ray scattering and polarized optical microscopy confirmed the alignment of the modified GO nanosheets in polar aprotic solvent, and the LLC structure was effectively preserved even after cross-linking under UV light. We found that the modified GO membranes exhibited considerably improved salt rejection for monovalent ions (99%) and water flux (120 LMH) as compared to the shear-aligned GO membrane, which is well supported by forward osmosis simulation studies. Additionally, our simulation studies indicated that water molecules traveled a longer path while permeating through the GO membrane compared to the GO LLC membrane. Consequently, salt ions permeate slowly across the GO LLC membrane, yielding higher salt rejection than the GO membrane. This begins to suggest strong electrostatic repulsion with the salt ions, causing higher salt rejection in the GO LLC membrane. We foresee that the ordered cross-linked GO sheets contributed to excellent mechanical stability under a high-pressure, cross-flow, chlorine environment. Overall, these membranes are easily scalable, exhibit good mechanical stability, and represent a breakthrough for the potential use of polymerized GO LLC membranes in practical water remediation applications.
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- Shabnam Pathan
- Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru-560012, India
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- Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru-560012, India
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- Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru-560012, India
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- Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru-560012, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati-781039, Assam, India
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- Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru-560012, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Tirupati-517619, Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru-560012, India
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Ma H, Jin X, Du YZ, Dong LY, Hu X, Li WC, Wang D, Joshi R, Hao GP, Lu AH. Asymmetric heterojunctions between size different 2D flakes intensify the ionic diode behaviour. Chem Commun (Camb) 2022; 58:5626-5629. [PMID: 35438094 DOI: 10.1039/d2cc01488b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Here we report on the facile formation of asymmetric heterojunctions between laterally size different 2D flakes, which leads to a prominent gradient in charge distribution at the nanocontact interface and triggers ionic diode-like transport behaviour with a rectification ratio of 110.
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- He Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China.
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- School of Material Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Gate 2 High St Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China.
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- School of Material Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Gate 2 High St Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China.
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Lu J, Jiang Y, Yu P, Jiang W, Mao L. Light-Controlled Ionic/Molecular Transport through Solid-State Nanopores and Nanochannels. Chem Asian J 2022; 17:e202200158. [PMID: 35324076 DOI: 10.1002/asia.202200158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2022] [Revised: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Biological nanochannels perfectly operate in organisms and exquisitely control mass transmembrane transport for complex life process. Inspired by biological nanochannels, plenty of intelligent artificial solid-state nanopores and nanochannels are constructed based on various materials and methods with the development of nanotechnology. Specially, the light-controlled nanopores/nanochannels have attracted much attention due to the unique advantages in terms of that ion and molecular transport can be regulated remotely, spatially and temporally. According to the structure and function of biological ion channels, light-controlled solid-state nanopores/nanochannels can be divided into light-regulated ion channels with ion gating and ion rectification functions, and light-driven ion pumps with active ion transport property. In this review, we present a systematic overview of light-controlled ion channels and ion pumps according to the photo-responsive components in the system. Then, the related applications of solid-state nanopores/nanochannels for molecular sensing, water purification and energy conversion are discussed. Finally, a brief conclusion and short outlook are offered for future development of the nanopore/nanochannel field.
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- Jiahao Lu
- Shandong University, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, CHINA
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- Beijing Normal University, College of Chemistry, CHINA
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, CHINA
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- Shandong University, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, CHINA
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- Beijing Normal University, College of Chemistry, No.19, Xinjiekouwai St, Haidian District, 100875, Beijing, CHINA
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Partition and selectivity of electrolytes in cylindrical nanopores with heterogeneous surface charge. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.116839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Chen Y, Zhu Z, Tian Y, Jiang L. Rational ion transport management mediated through membrane structures. EXPLORATION (BEIJING, CHINA) 2021; 1:20210101. [PMID: 37323215 PMCID: PMC10190948 DOI: 10.1002/exp.20210101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Unique membrane structures endow membranes with controlled ion transport properties in both biological and artificial systems, and they have shown broad application prospects from industrial production to biological interfaces. Herein, current advances in nanochannel-structured membranes for manipulating ion transport are reviewed from the perspective of membrane structures. First, the controllability of ion transport through ion selectivity, ion gating, ion rectification, and ion storage is introduced. Second, nanochannel-structured membranes are highlighted according to the nanochannel dimensions, including single-dimensional nanochannels (i.e., 1D, 2D, and 3D) functioning by the controllable geometrical parameters of 1D nanochannels, the adjustable interlayer spacing of 2D nanochannels, and the interconnected ion diffusion pathways of 3D nanochannels, and mixed-dimensional nanochannels (i.e., 1D/1D, 1D/2D, 1D/3D, 2D/2D, 2D/3D, and 3D/3D) tuned through asymmetric factors (e.g., components, geometric parameters, and interface properties). Then, ultrathin membranes with short ion transport distances and sandwich-like membranes with more delicate nanochannels and combination structures are reviewed, and stimulus-responsive nanochannels are discussed. Construction methods for nanochannel-structured membranes are briefly introduced, and a variety of applications of these membranes are summarized. Finally, future perspectives to developing nanochannel-structured membranes with unique structures (e.g., combinations of external macro/micro/nanostructures and the internal nanochannel arrangement) for mediating ion transport are presented.
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- Yupeng Chen
- Key Laboratory of Bio‐Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of ChemistryBeihang UniversityBeijingP. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio‐Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of ChemistryBeihang UniversityBeijingP. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Bio‐Inspired Materials and Interfacial ScienceCAS Center for Excellence in NanoscienceTechnical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingP. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingP. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio‐Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of ChemistryBeihang UniversityBeijingP. R. China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Bio‐Inspired Materials and Interfacial ScienceCAS Center for Excellence in NanoscienceTechnical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingP. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingP. R. China
- School of Future TechnologyUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingP. R. China
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Fu L, Wang Y, Jiang J, Lu B, Zhai J. Sandwich "Ion Pool"-Structured Power Gating for Salinity Gradient Generation Devices. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:35197-35206. [PMID: 34266231 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c10183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Nanoconfinement ion transport, similar to that of biological ion channels, has attracted widespread research interest and offers prospects for broad applications in energy conversion and nanofluidic diodes. At present, various methods were adopted to improve the rectification performance of nanofluidic diodes including geometrical, chemical, and electrostatic asymmetries. However, contributions of the confinement effects within the channels were neglected, which can be a crucial factor for ion rectification behavior. In this research, we report an "ion pool"-structured nanofluidic diode to improve the confinement effect of the system, which was constructed based on an anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) nanoporous membrane sandwiched between zeolitic imidazolate framework 8 (ZIF-8) and tungsten oxide (WO3) thin membranes. A high rectification ratio of 192 is obtained through this nanofluidic system due to ions could be enriched or depleted sufficiently within the ion pool. Furthermore, this high-rectification-ratio ion pool-structured nanofluidic diode possessed pH-responsive and excellent ion selectivity. We developed it as a pH-responsive power gating for a salinity gradient harvesting device by controlling the surface charge density of the ion pool nanochannel narrow ends with different pH values, and hence, the ionic gate is switched between On and Off states, with a gating ratio of up to 27, which exhibited 8 times increase than ZIF-8-AAO and AAO-WO3 composite membranes. Significantly, the peculiar ion pool structure can generate high rectification ratios due to the confinement effect, which then achieves high gating ratios. Such ion pool-structured nanochannels created new avenues to design and optimize nanofluidic diodes and boosted their applications in energy conversion areas.
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- Lulu Fu
- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, P. R. China
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Paschoalino WJ, Payne NA, Pessanha TM, Gateman SM, Kubota LT, Mauzeroll J. Charge Storage in Graphene Oxide: Impact of the Cation on Ion Permeability and Interfacial Capacitance. Anal Chem 2020; 92:10300-10307. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Waldemir J. Paschoalino
- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal H3A 0B8, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, P.O. Box 6154, 13084-971 Campinas, SP Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal H3A 0B8, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, P.O. Box 6154, 13084-971 Campinas, SP Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal H3A 0B8, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, P.O. Box 6154, 13084-971 Campinas, SP Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal H3A 0B8, Quebec, Canada
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Luo R, Xiao T, Li W, Liu Z, Wang Y. An ionic diode based on a spontaneously formed polypyrrole-modified graphene oxide membrane. RSC Adv 2020; 10:17079-17084. [PMID: 35521453 PMCID: PMC9053440 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra01145b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Asymmetric membranes derived from the stacking of graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets have attracted great attention for the fabrication of ionic diodes. Herein, we described an ionic diode based on a polypyrrole-modified GO membrane with a vertical asymmetry, which was achieved by a spontaneous oxidation polymerization of pyrrole monomers on one side of the GO membrane in vapor phase. This asymmetric modification resulted in an asymmetric geometry due to the occupation of the interlayer space of one side of the GO membrane by polypyrrole. Our ionic diode demonstrated an obvious ionic rectification behavior over a wide voltage range. A calculation based on Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations was used to theoretically investigate the role of asymmetric modification of polypyrrole.
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- Rifeng Luo
- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beihang University Beijing 100191 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beihang University Beijing 100191 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Measurement-Manipulation and Physics (Ministry of Education), School of Physics, Beihang University Beijing 100191 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beihang University Beijing 100191 P. R. China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University Guangzhou 510006 P. R. China
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Gogoi A, Anki Reddy K, Mondal PK. Influence of the presence of cations on the water and salt dynamics inside layered graphene oxide (GO) membranes. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:7273-7283. [PMID: 32196024 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr09288a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Although over the past few years, graphene oxide (GO) has emerged as a promising membrane material, the applicability of layered GO membranes in water purification/seawater desalination is still a challenging issue because of the undesirable swelling of GO laminates in the aqueous environment. One of the ways to tune the interlayer spacing and to arrest the undesirable swelling of layered GO membranes in the aqueous environment is to intercalate the interlayer spacing of the GO laminates with cations. Although the cation intercalation imparts stabilization to GO laminates in the aqueous environment, their effect on the performance of the membrane is yet to be addressed in detail. In the present study we have investigated the effect of cation intercalation on the performance of layered GO membranes using molecular dynamics simulation. For the same interlayer spacing, the cation intercalated layered GO membranes have a higher water flux as compared to the corresponding pristine layered GO membranes. In the presence of the cations, the water molecules inside the interlayer gallery get more compactly packed. The presence of the cations also increases the stability of the hydrogen bond network among the water molecules inside the membrane. This can be attributed to slow water reorientation dynamics inside the interlayer gallery in the presence of the cations. The synergistic effect of all these changes is that the water permeability through the cation intercalated layered GO membranes is higher as compared to that through the corresponding pristine layered GO membranes. On the other hand, the intercalation of the cations (K+, Mg2+) leads to higher rejection of Na+ ions whereas the rejection of Cl- ions slightly decreases.
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- Abhijit Gogoi
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
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Zhang Z, He L, Zhu C, Qian Y, Wen L, Jiang L. Improved osmotic energy conversion in heterogeneous membrane boosted by three-dimensional hydrogel interface. Nat Commun 2020; 11:875. [PMID: 32054863 PMCID: PMC7018769 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14674-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The emerging heterogeneous membranes show unprecedented superiority in harvesting the osmotic energy between ionic solutions of different salinity. However, the power densities are limited by the low interfacial transport efficiency caused by a mismatch of pore alignment and insufficient coupling between channels of different dimensions. Here we demonstrate the use of three-dimensional (3D) gel interface to achieve high-performance osmotic energy conversion through hybridizing polyelectrolyte hydrogel and aramid nanofiber membrane. The ionic diode effect of the heterogeneous membrane facilitates one-way ion diffusion, and the gel layer provides a charged 3D transport network, greatly enhancing the interfacial transport efficiency. When used for harvesting the osmotic energy from the mixing of sea and river water, the heterogeneous membrane outperforms the state-of-the-art membranes, to the best of our knowledge, with power densities of 5.06 W m-2. The diversity of the polyelectrolyte and gel makes our strategy a potentially universal approach for osmotic energy conversion.
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- Zhen Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.,Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.,Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (Cfaed) and Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China. .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China. .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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Jia M, Kong X, Wang L, Zhang Y, Quan D, Ding L, Lu D, Jiang L, Guo W. Light-Powered Directional Nanofluidic Ion Transport in Kirigami-Made Asymmetric Photonic-Ionic Devices. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2020; 16:e1905557. [PMID: 31805218 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201905557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2019] [Revised: 11/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Nacre-mimetic 2D nanofluidic materials with densely packed sub-nanometer-height lamellar channels find widespread applications in water-, energy-, and environment-related aspects by virtue of their scalable fabrication methods and exceptional transport properties. Recently, light-powered nanofluidic ion transport in synthetic materials gained considerable attention for its remote, noninvasive, and active control of the membrane transport property using the energy of light. Toward practical application, a critical challenge is to overcome the dependence on inhomogeneous or site-specific light illumination. Here, asymmetric photonic-ionic devices based on kirigami-tailored graphene oxide paper are fabricated, and directional nanofluidic ion transport properties therein powered by full-area light illumination are demonstrated. The in-plane asymmetry of the graphene oxide paper is essential to the generation of photoelectric driving force under homogeneous illumination. This light-powered ion transport phenomenon is explained based on a modified carrier diffusion model. In asymmetric nanofluidic structures, enhanced recombination of photoexcited charge carriers at the membrane boundary breaks the electric potential balance in the horizontal direction, and thus drives the ion transport in that direction under symmetric illumination. The kirigami-based strategy provides a facile and scalable way to fabricate paper-like photonic-ionic devices with arbitrary shapes, working as fundamental elements for large-scale light-harvesting nanofluidic circuits.
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- Meijuan Jia
- CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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Zhang Z, Huang X, Qian Y, Chen W, Wen L, Jiang L. Engineering Smart Nanofluidic Systems for Artificial Ion Channels and Ion Pumps: From Single-Pore to Multichannel Membranes. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2020; 32:e1904351. [PMID: 31793736 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201904351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Revised: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Biological ion channels and ion pumps with intricate ion transport functions widely exist in living organisms and play irreplaceable roles in almost all physiological functions. Nanofluidics provides exciting opportunities to mimic these working processes, which not only helps understand ion transport in biological systems but also paves the way for the applications of artificial devices in many valuable areas. Recent progress in the engineering of smart nanofluidic systems for artificial ion channels and ion pumps is summarized. The artificial systems range from chemically and structurally diverse lipid-membrane-based nanopores to robust and scalable solid-state nanopores. A generic strategy of gate location design is proposed. The single-pore-based platform concept can be rationally extended into multichannel membrane systems and shows unprecedented potential in many application areas, such as single-molecule analysis, smart mass delivery, and energy conversion. Finally, some present underpinning issues that need to be addressed are discussed.
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- Zhen Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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Xiao T, Ma J, Jiang J, Gan M, Lu B, Luo R, Liu Q, Zhang Q, Liu Z, Zhai J. Rod-Cell-Mimetic Photochromic Layered Ion Channels with Multiple Switchable States for Controllable Ion Transport. Chemistry 2019; 25:12795-12800. [PMID: 31376182 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201902450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2019] [Revised: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The controllable ion transport in the photoreceptors of rod cells is essentially important for the light detection and information transduction in visual systems. Herein, inspired by the photochromism-regulated ion transport in rod cells with stacking structure, layered ion channels have been developed with a visual photochromic function induced by the alternate irradiation with visible and UV light. The layered structure is formed by stacking spiropyran-modified montmorillonite 2D nanosheets on the surface of an alumina nanoporous membrane. The visual photochromism resulting from the photoisomerization of spiropyran chromophores reversibly regulates the ion transport through layered ion channels. Furthermore, the cooperation of photochromism and pH value achieves multiple switchable states of layered ion channels for the controllable ion transport mimicking the biological process of the visual cycle. The ion transport properties of these states are explained quantitatively by a theoretical calculation based on the Poisson and Nernst-Plank (PNP) equations.
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- Tianliang Xiao
- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100124, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- The College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China
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Khan NA, Yuan J, Wu H, Cao L, Zhang R, Liu Y, Li L, Rahman AU, Kasher R, Jiang Z. Mixed Nanosheet Membranes Assembled from Chemically Grafted Graphene Oxide and Covalent Organic Frameworks for Ultra-high Water Flux. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:28978-28986. [PMID: 31336048 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b09945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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2D graphene oxide (GO) membranes attract great attention because of their ultrathin thickness and superior molecular sieving ability, but their low flux and instability in aqueous environments are still the major challenges for practical applications. In this study, we designed hybrid nanosheets from chemically grafted GO and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) as building blocks to fabricate mixed nanosheet membranes. The covalent triazine framework (CTF), a triazine-based COF, is exfoliated into nanosheets and then reacted with GO to form the GO-CTF hybrid nanosheets, which are then assembled into GO-CTF mixed nanosheet membranes. The GO-CTF membranes show a layered configuration of ca. 32 nm thickness. The incorporation of CTF nanosheets inappreciably changes the interlayer distance of GO-CTF membranes, ensuring high rejections to organic dyes (>90%); meanwhile, the CTF nanosheets afford extra through-plane channels that significantly shorten the water transport pathway. The GO-CTF membranes exhibit a water flux of 226.3 L m-2 h-1 bar-1, more than 12-fold higher than pure GO membranes. Besides, the strong chemical bonds between GO and COF render the GO-CTF membranes notably enhanced stability. Grafting of porous nanosheets onto nonporous nanosheets to acquire hybrid nanosheets as building blocks opens a new avenue to the fabrication of 2D membranes with promising application potential.
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- Niaz Ali Khan
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin) , Tianjin 300072 , China
- Institute of Chemical Sciences , University of Peshawar , Peshawar 25120 , Pakistan
- CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience , National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing 100190 , P. R. China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin) , Tianjin 300072 , China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin) , Tianjin 300072 , China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin) , Tianjin 300072 , China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin) , Tianjin 300072 , China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin) , Tianjin 300072 , China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience , National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing 100190 , P. R. China
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences , University of Peshawar , Peshawar 25120 , Pakistan
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- Department of Desalination and Water Treatment, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Sede Boqer Campus , Beersheba 84990 , Israel
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin) , Tianjin 300072 , China
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Yu Y, Fan J, Xia J, Zhu Y, Wu H, Wang F. Dehydration impeding ionic conductance through two-dimensional angstrom-scale slits. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:8449-8457. [PMID: 30985841 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr00317g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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There has been long-standing academic interest in the study of ion transport in nanochannel systems, owing to its vast implications in understanding the nature of numerous environmental, biological and chemical processes. Here, we investigate ion transport through two-dimensional slits using molecular dynamics simulations. These slits with angstrom-scale height dimensions can be realistically replicated in the simulation, which leads to direct comparisons between simulations and experiments. In particular, this new confining geometry allows the size exclusion effect to be unambiguously decoupled from other mechanisms. As the slit size approaches the ultimate scale, dehydration at the entry impedes the ionic conductance significantly, and even induces a complete ion rejection. We demonstrate that energy barriers required to accomplish the ion permeation can be theoretically connected to the partial dehydration process. The proposed model is further validated by simulations. Our results offer insights into the atomistic details of ion permeation, which may also shed light on developing effective ways for water filtration and desalination.
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- YanZi Yu
- CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, Department of Modern Mechanics, CAS Center for Excellence in Complex System Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China.
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