Membranes supporting selective ion transport provide the opportunity to generate electricity from water sources with different salt concentrations. Now researchers report a strategy to align nanochannels in covalent organic framework membranes for unprecedented performance in osmotic energy harvesting.
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Fig. 1: Schematic of the synthesis and ion-selective transport of COF membranes.
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Xie, L., Kong, B. Nanopore aligned, membrane redefined. Nat Sustain (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01540-w
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