scholarly journals The Selective Transport of Ions in Charged Nanopore with Combined Multi-Physics Fields

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 7012
Author(s):  
Pengfei Ma ◽  
Jianxiang Zheng ◽  
Danting Zhao ◽  
Wenjie Zhang ◽  
Gonghao Lu ◽  
...  

The selective transport of ions in nanopores attracts broad interest due to their potential applications in chemical separation, ion filtration, seawater desalination, and energy conversion. The ion selectivity based on the ion dehydration and steric hindrance is still limited by the very similar diameter between different hydrated ions. The selectivity can only separate specific ion species, lacking a general separation effect. Herein, we report the highly ionic selective transport in charged nanopore through the combination of hydraulic pressure and electric field. Based on the coupled Poisson–Nernst–Planck (PNP) and Navier–Stokes (NS) equations, the calculation results suggest that the coupling of hydraulic pressure and electric field can significantly enhance the ion selectivity compared to the results under the single driven force of hydraulic pressure or electric field. Different from the material-property-based ion selective transport, this method endows the general separation effect between different kinds of ions. Through the appropriate combination of hydraulic pressure and electric field, an extremely high selectivity ratio can be achieved. Further in-depth analysis reveals the influence of nanopore diameter, surface charge density and ionic strength on the selectivity ratio. These findings provide a potential route for high-performance ionic selective transport and separation in nanofluidic systems.

Author(s):  
Zhendong Hao ◽  
Yue Wu ◽  
Yating Hu ◽  
Chengjie Wang ◽  
Qianqian Zhang ◽  
...  

The selective transport of charge carriers has a great impact on the efficiency for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. However, pursuing membranes with high-performance ion selectivity is one of the...


CrystEngComm ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuzhu Pan ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Jingda Zhao ◽  
Yubing Xu ◽  
Yuwei Li ◽  
...  

Perovskites single crystals (PSCs) could be used to made high performance photoelectric detectors due to its superior optoelectronic characteristics. Generally, external electric field need to be applied in the PSCs-based...


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Munusamy Kuppan ◽  
Daichi Yamamoto ◽  
Genta Egawa ◽  
Sivaperuman Kalainathan ◽  
Satoru Yoshimura

Abstract(Bi1−xLax)(Fe,Co)O3 multiferroic magnetic film were fabricated using pulsed DC (direct current) sputtering technique and demonstrated magnetization reversal by applied electric field. The fabricated (Bi0.41La0.59)(Fe0.75Co0.25)O3 films exhibited hysteresis curves of both ferromagnetic and ferroelectric behavior. The saturated magnetization (Ms) of the multiferroic film was about 70 emu/cm3. The squareness (S) (= remanent magnetization (Mr)/Ms) and coercivity (Hc) of perpendicular to film plane are 0.64 and 4.2 kOe which are larger compared with films in parallel to film plane of 0.5 and 2.5 kOe. The electric and magnetic domain structures of the (Bi0.41La0.59)(Fe0.75Co0.25)O3 film analyzed by electric force microscopy (EFM) and magnetic force microscopy (MFM) were clearly induced with submicron scale by applying a local electric field. This magnetization reversal indicates the future realization of high performance magnetic device with low power consumption.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Hu ◽  
Xiaomin Tang ◽  
Qing Dai ◽  
Zhiqiang Liu ◽  
Huamin Zhang ◽  
...  

AbstractMembranes with fast and selective ions transport are highly demanded for energy storage devices. Layered double hydroxides (LDHs), bearing uniform interlayer galleries and abundant hydroxyl groups covalently bonded within two-dimensional (2D) host layers, make them superb candidates for high-performance membranes. However, related research on LDHs for ions separation is quite rare, especially the deep-going study on ions transport behavior in LDHs. Here, we report a LDHs-based composite membrane with fast and selective ions transport for flow battery application. The hydroxide ions transport through LDHs via vehicular (standard diffusion) & Grotthuss (proton hopping) mechanisms is uncovered. The LDHs-based membrane enables an alkaline zinc-based flow battery to operate at 200 mA cm−2, along with an energy efficiency of 82.36% for 400 cycles. This study offers an in-depth understanding of ions transport in LDHs and further inspires their applications in other energy-related devices.


Author(s):  
Yun Zhao ◽  
Xiaoqiang Feng ◽  
Menghan Zhao ◽  
Xiaohu Zheng ◽  
Zhiduo Liu ◽  
...  

Employing C3N QD-integrated single-crystal graphene, photodetectors exhibited a distinct photocurrent response at 1550 nm. The photocurrent map revealed that the fast response derive from C3N QDs that enhanced the local electric field near graphene.


Author(s):  
Eduardo Lascas Neto ◽  
Jonathan P Graves ◽  
Madhusudan Raghunathan ◽  
Cristian Sommariva ◽  
David Pfefferlé

Abstract Strongly peaked tungsten accumulation is a common feature of high performance plasma scenarios in JET with the ITER-like wall, particularly during MHD activity induced by m⁄n = 1⁄1 continuous modes. This study investigates the effect of 1⁄1 long living internal kink modes on heavy impurity transport in the presence of strong flows and NTV ambipolar electric field. A novel formulation which includes these effects is presented and applied in the VENUS-LEVIS code in order to follow tungsten ions in a saturated JET-like 1⁄1 internal kinked toroidally rotating plasma configuration. The synergy between 3D magnetic fields, strong flows and NTV is seen to cause tungsten accumulation in contrast to what is observed in similar axisymmetric configurations. Rapid inward transport of impurities in JET plasmas following the triggering of continuous 1⁄1 modes is explained by the work presented here, and we use the same theory to postulate why outward transport can occur in kinked ASDEX-U plasmas.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 785-798
Author(s):  
Daokun Hu ◽  
Zhiwen Chen ◽  
Jianbing Wu ◽  
Jianhua Sun ◽  
Hao Chen

Persistent memory (PM) is increasingly being leveraged to build hash-based indexing structures featuring cheap persistence, high performance, and instant recovery, especially with the recent release of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules. However, most of them are evaluated on DRAM-based emulators with unreal assumptions, or focus on the evaluation of specific metrics with important properties sidestepped. Thus, it is essential to understand how well the proposed hash indexes perform on real PM and how they differentiate from each other if a wider range of performance metrics are considered. To this end, this paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of persistent hash tables. In particular, we focus on the evaluation of six state-of-the-art hash tables including Level hashing, CCEH, Dash, PCLHT, Clevel, and SOFT, with real PM hardware. Our evaluation was conducted using a unified benchmarking framework and representative workloads. Besides characterizing common performance properties, we also explore how hardware configurations (such as PM bandwidth, CPU instructions, and NUMA) affect the performance of PM-based hash tables. With our in-depth analysis, we identify design trade-offs and good paradigms in prior arts, and suggest desirable optimizations and directions for the future development of PM-based hash tables.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Hu ◽  
Xiaomin Tang ◽  
Qing Dai ◽  
Zhiqiang Liu ◽  
Huamin Zhang ◽  
...  

Abstract Membranes with fast and selective ions transport are highly demanded for energy storage devices. Layered double hydroxides (LDHs), bearing uniform interlayer galleries and abundant hydroxyl groups covalently bonded within two-dimensional (2D) host layers, make them superb candidates for high-performance membranes. However, related research on LDHs for ions separation is quite rare, especially the deep-going study on ions transport behavior in LDHs. Here, we report a LDHs-based composite membrane with fast and selective ions transport for flow battery application. The hydroxide ions transport through LDHs via vehicular (standard diffusion) & Grotthuss (proton hopping) mechanisms is uncovered. The LDHs-based membrane enables an alkaline zinc-based flow battery to operate at 200 mA cm− 2, along with an energy efficiency of 82.36% for 400 cycles, which is among the highest efficiencies for zinc-based flow batteries. This study offers an in-depth understanding of ions transport in LDHs and further inspires their applications in other energy-related devices.


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