title: Nanofluidics for giant power harvesting.
abstract: Nanochannels for power generation: The confinement of fluid motion in a single boron nitride nanotube can provide an efficient means of power harvesting owing to the osmotically driven streaming current under a salt concentration difference (see picture). Devices based on this principle may open a new avenue in the exploration for new sources of renewable energy.
authors.affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiaodong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
keywords: nanofluidics; nanotubes; osmotic power; salinity gradient