Punctured Two-Dimensional Sheets for Harvesting Blue Energy

ALIPRANDI, Alessandro, PAKULSKI, Dawid, CIESIELSKI, Artur et SAMORI, Paolo, sans date. Punctured Two-Dimensional Sheets for Harvesting Blue Energy. ACS Nano [en ligne]. sans date. Vol. 11, n° 11pp. 10654-10658. [Consultésans date]. DOI 10.1021/acsnano.7b06657. Consulté de : http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.7b06657The challenges of global climate change and the world’s growing demand for energy have brought the need for new renewable energy sources to the top of the international community’s agenda. We have known for many centuries that energy is released upon mixing seawater and freshwater, yet it was just a few decades ago that it became clear how this energy can be converted into electricity instead of heat. As a result, the blue energy rush has raised and set new strategies in different science and technology sectors, leading to the construction of a new generation of plants and other technological investments. Among many approaches, pressure-retarded osmosis has emerged as a promising method to collect the largest amount of produced blue energy. In this Perspective, we highlight the advances in the development of ultrathin membranes based on two-dimensional materials. We discuss the most relevant synthetic methods devised to generate atomically thin membranes for pressure-retarded osmosis and retarded electrodialysis applications, and we provide some critical views on the greatest challenges in this thrilling research area.1. .
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Auteurs Alessandro Aliprandi
Dawid Pakulski
Artur Ciesielski
Paolo Samori
Unité de recherche du site

Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires - ISIS - UMR7006
URL éditeur http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.7b06657
Langue

en
Volume

11
Numéro

11
Page de début

10654
Page de fin

10658
Date de première publication

2017-10-20
ISSN

1936-0851
1936-086X
Titre de la source (revue, livre…)

ACS Nano
Résumé

The challenges of global climate change and the world’s growing demand for energy have brought the need for new renewable energy sources to the top of the international community’s agenda. We have known for many centuries that energy is released upon
Show moreThe challenges of global climate change and the world’s growing demand for energy have brought the need for new renewable energy sources to the top of the international community’s agenda. We have known for many centuries that energy is released upon mixing seawater and freshwater, yet it was just a few decades ago that it became clear how this energy can be converted into electricity instead of heat. As a result, the blue energy rush has raised and set new strategies in different science and technology sectors, leading to the construction of a new generation of plants and other technological investments. Among many approaches, pressure-retarded osmosis has emerged as a promising method to collect the largest amount of produced blue energy. In this Perspective, we highlight the advances in the development of ultrathin membranes based on two-dimensional materials. We discuss the most relevant synthetic methods devised to generate atomically thin membranes for pressure-retarded osmosis and retarded electrodialysis applications, and we provide some critical views on the greatest challenges in this thrilling research area.
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DOI 10.1021/acsnano.7b06657
Éditeur

American Chemical Society
Titre abrégé de la source

ACS Nano
Type de publication

ACL
Domaine

Chimie/Matériaux
Unité de recherche extérieure au site

Faculty of Chemistry and Centre for Advanced Technologies, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61614 Poznań Poland
Fonction

aut
crp
Identifiant ORCID 0000-0001-6256-8281
Audience

International