• 文献标题:   Laser-Assisted Scalable Pore Fabrication in Graphene Membranes for Blue-Energy Generation
  • 文献类型:   Article, Early Access
  • 作  者:   YADAV SK, MANIKANDAN D, SINGH C, KUMAR M, ASWATHY G, RAMAPRABHU S, NANDIGANA VVR, NAYAK PK
  • 作者关键词:   blue energy, 2d membrane, selectivity, surface charge density, ion concentration polarization, diffusion cell
  • 出版物名称:   CHEMPHYSCHEM
  • ISSN:   1439-4235 EI 1439-7641
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1002/cphc.202200598 EA DEC 2022
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

The osmotic energy from a salinity gradient (i. e. blue energy) is identified as a promising non-intermittent renewable energy source for a sustainable technology. However, this membrane-based technology is facing major limitations for large-scale viability, primarily due to the poor membrane performance. An atomically thin 2D nanoporous material with high surface charge density resolves the bottleneck and leads to a new class of membrane material the salinity gradient energy. Although 2D nanoporous membranes show extremely high performance in terms of energy generation through the single pore, the fabrication and technical challenges such as ion concentration polarization make the nanoporous membrane a non-viable solution. On the other hand, the mesoporous and micro porous structures in the 2D membrane result in improved energy generation with very low fabrication complexity. In the present work, we report femtosecond (fs) laser-assisted scalable fabrication of mu m to mm size pores on Graphene membrane for blue energy generation for the first time. A remarkable osmotic power in the order of mu W has been achieved using mm size pores, which is about six orders of magnitudes higher compared to nanoporous membranes, which is mainly due to the diffusion-osmosis driven large ionic flux. Our work paves the way towards fs laser-assisted scalable pore creation in the 2D membrane for large-scale osmotic power generation.