supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFA1202400 and 2023YFF1205900);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22322408,21925401,22474096 and 52221001);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2042022rc0004 and 2042024kf1015);the‘Sharp Knife’Technology Research Program of Hubei Province(2023BAA002);the Research Funds from the State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics of Hunan University(20230755);the New Cornerstone Science Foun-dation through the XPLORER PRIZE.
Atomically thin nanoporous 2D membranes,featuring unique sieving characteristics for molecules and ions,have significant potential for seawater desalination.However,they face a common trade-offbetween permeability and...
In today’s data-driven world,energy consumption and CO_(2)emissions resulting from digitalization and computation are steadily increasing,which are significant challenges for our society.In the course of natural evol...
supported by the Tsinghua-Toyota Joint Research Fund,the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52176078 and 52250273);the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program.
The high thermopower of ionic thermoelectric(i-TE)materials holds promise for miniaturized waste-heat recovery devices and thermal sensors.However,progress is hampered by laborious trial-and-error experimentations,whi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22279166);the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFB2402600);the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2022B1515120019).
The coexistence and coupling of capacitive and memristive effects have been an important subject of scientific interest.While the capacitive effect in memristors has been extensively studied,the reciprocal scenario of...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2023YFB3809501);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52127816,51972259,52172231 and 52202290);the National Energy-Saving and Low-Carbon Materials Production and Application Demonstration Platform Program (TC220H06N);the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2022CFA087).
Rechargeable magnesium batteries(RMBs)have received increased attention due to their high volumetric capacity and safety.Nevertheless,the sluggish difusion kinetics of highly polarized Mg^(2+)in host lattices severely...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21975268);the Recruitment Program of Guangdong(2016ZT06C322);the TCL Science and Technology Innovation Fund;Hainan University’s Scientific Research Foundation(KYQD(ZR)-22120)。
A biological potassium channel is>1000 times more permeable to K^(+)than to Na^(+)and exhibits a giant permeation rate of~10^(8)ions/s.It is a great challenge to construct artificial potassium channels with such high ...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFA1400501);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11935002 and 12204039);the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents(BX2021040);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2021M690408);Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars(XSQD-202210007)。
Relevant to broad applied fields and natural processes,interfacial ionic hydrates have been widely studied by using ultrahigh-resolution atomic force microscopy(AFM).However,the complex relationship between the AFM si...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52188102,51820105008 and U2013213);the Technology Innovation Project of Hubei Province of China(2019AEA171).
The arrival of surgical robots in high-end medical equipment is a landmark,and the realization of tactile sensation a major challenge in this important cutting-edge research field.Aiming to address this issue,we prese...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51322204,51772282 and 51972299)
Tremendous efforts have been dedicated to developing high-performance energy storage devices based on the micro-or nano-manipulation of novel carbon electrodes,as certain nanocarbons are perceived to have advantages s...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51706076 and 51736004)
Advances in nanofabrication and materials science give a boost to the research in nanofluidic energy harvesting.Contrary to previous efforts on isothermal conditions,here a study on asymmetric temperature dependence i...