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The mounting global energy demand urges surplus electricity generation. Due to dwindling fossil resources and environmental concerns, shifting from carbon-based fuels to renewables is vital. Though renewables are affordable, their intermittent nature poses supply challenges. In these contexts, aqueous flow batteries (AFBs), are a viable energy storage solution. This study tackles AFBs' energy density and efficiency challenges. Conventional strategies focus on altering molecule's solubility but overlook interface's transport kinetics. We show that triggering electrostatic forces at the interface can significantly enhance the mass transport kinetics of redox active molecules by introducing a powerful electrostatic flux over the diffusional flux, thereby exerting a precise directionality on the molecular transport. This approach of controlling the directionality of molecular flux in an all iron redox flow battery amplifies the current and power rating with approximately 140 % enhancement in the energy density.
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Small Methods
September 2025
School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology, Wushan Road 381, Guangzhou, 510640, China.
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Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience, School of Graduate Studies, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport - Shreveport, Louisiana, USA; Louisiana Addiction Research Center, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport - Shreveport, Louisiana, USA; Department of Psychiatry and B
Methamphetamine is a highly addictive psychostimulant with significant neurobiological consequences, yet strain-dependent differences in its effects remain poorly understood. This study investigated behavioral and molecular differences in Swiss-Webster and C57BL/6 mice following methamphetamine exposure. Swiss-Webster mice exhibited greater behavioral sensitivity to methamphetamine compared to C57BL/6 mice, as demonstrated by lower peak doses required to elicit locomotor stimulation and conditioned place preference.
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September 2025
Lab of Food Function and Nutrigenomics, College of Food Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China; Institute of Integrative Medicine, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Liver Visceral Manifestation in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Department of Integrated Traditio
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Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecules (CAS), National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address:
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