Discover osmotic energy that runs nonstop, with pilots in France and Japan, helping coastal cities lower grid costs and add clean supply.

Where freshwater rivers spill into salty seas, nature is constantly balancing chemical differences that quietly release ...

Scientists use a broadband light source to manipulate fluid flow in millimetre-sized channels, a process that could help to speed up mixing in microfluidic networks. Researchers at the Hungarian ...

Osmosis through semi-permeable pores is a complex process by which solvent is driven by its free energy gradient towards a solute-rich reservoir. We have studied osmotic flow across a semi-permeable ...

Researchers probed the transit of cations across a nanopore membrane for the generation of osmotic energy. The team controlled the passage of cations across the membrane using a voltage applied to a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper presents a general model for coupled solute and water flow through plant roots based on the thermodynamics of irreversible ...

New research into osmosis-driven behavior now provides a more granular theoretical understanding of the deterministic mechanisms, report scientists in two new papers. The first paper deconstructs the ...

Figure 1: Passive phloem loading in plants and in the synthetic tree-on-a-chip. Using our synthetic passive loader, we study in this paper the full dynamics of passive phloem loading, set by the ...

In order to survive, organisms must control the pressure inside them, from the single-cell level to tissues and organs. Measuring these pressures in living cells and tissues in physiological ...