Improved osmotic energy conversion in heterogeneous membrane boosted by three-dimensional hydrogel interface

Heterogeneous membranes show great promise in harvesting the osmotic energy, but the performance is limited by the low interfacial transport efficiency. Here, the authors report use of a three-dimensional polyelectrolyte gel interface to achieve high-performance osmotic energy conversion.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhen Zhang, Li He, Congcong Zhu, Yongchao Qian, Liping Wen, Lei Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14674-6