{"id":172708,"date":"2023-09-24T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/nanofluidic-device-generates-power-with-saltwater"},"modified":"2023-09-24T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:24:04","slug":"nanofluidic-device-generates-power-with-saltwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/nanofluidic-device-generates-power-with-saltwater","title":{"rendered":"Nanofluidic device generates power with saltwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanofluidic-device-generates-power-with-saltwater3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a largely untapped energy source along the world\u2019s coastlines: the difference in salinity between seawater and freshwater. A new nanodevice can harness this difference to generate power.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has reported a design for a nanofluidic device capable of converting ionic flow into usable electric power in the journal <i>Nano Energy<\/i>. The team believes that their device could be used to extract power from the natural ionic flows at seawater-freshwater boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile our design is still a concept at this stage, it is quite versatile and already shows strong potential for energy applications,\u201d said Jean-Pierre Leburton, a U. of I. professor of electrical &amp; computer engineering and the project lead. \u201cIt began with an academic question\u2014\u2019Can a nanoscale solid-state device extract energy from ionic flow?\u2019\u2014but our design exceeded our expectations and surprised us in many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a largely untapped energy source along the world\u2019s coastlines: the difference in salinity between seawater and freshwater. A new nanodevice can harness this difference to generate power. A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has reported a design for a nanofluidic device capable of converting ionic flow into usable electric [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}