Bioinspired Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Membranes for Salinity-Gradient Energy Harvesting

作     者：Jian Wang Yahong Zhou Lei Jiang 

作者机构：College of Materials and Chemistry&Chemical EngineeringChengdu University of TechnologyChengdu 610059People’s Republic of China Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interface ScienceTechnical Institute of Physics and ChemistryChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100190People’s Republic of China Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of EducationSchool of ChemistryBeihang UniversityBeijing 100191People’s Republic of China 

出 版 物：《Accounts of Materials Research》 (材料研究述评（英文）)

年 卷 期：2023年第4卷第1期

页      面：86-100页

学科分类：07[理学] 070205[理学-凝聚态物理] 08[工学] 080501[工学-材料物理与化学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21805017,21875270,21988102) the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS(Grant NO.2021029) 

主　　题：porous harvesting versatile 

摘      要：CONSPECTUS:Salinity-gradient energy represents a widespread,clean,environmentally friendly,and sustainable source of renewable energy,which has attracted great attention in the past *** harness this energy,interdisciplinary efforts from chemistry,materials science,environmental science,and nanotechnology have been made to develop efficient and low-cost approaches and materials for energy *** reverse electrodialysis(RED)systems are generally based on ion-exchange membranes,which usually suffer from ineffective mass transport,high membrane resistance,limited pore size,and concentration polarization,resulting in low output power density and poor energyconversion *** one promising material,nanofluidic channels with their unique transport properties,which can be attributed to nanoconfinement effect,enable highperformance reverse electrodialysis to efficiently harvest salinity-gradient *** to the unique porous architectures,three-dimensional(3D)nanoporous membranes demonstrate great potential for harvesting salinity-gradient *** is generally known that the porous membranes can be prepared by many methods;however,there are some shortcomings such as high costs,poor ion conductance,and fragility limiting the practical *** simple and versatile approaches to lowcost fabrication of 3D nanoporous membranes have been developed in recent *** example,self-assembly provides an effective route of constructing functional materials and organizing them into 3D *** this Account,we mainly review our recent progress in the design and fabrication of bioinspired 3D nanoporous membranes for salinity-gradient energy ***,we give a brief introduction to bioinspired nanochannel membranes(BNMs)with diverse structural dimensions,and nanofluidic channel membranes may lead to technological breakthroughs and thus act as an emerging platform for harvesting salinity-gradient ***,we discuss the