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Enhanced photo-driven ion pump through silver nanoparticles decorated graphene oxide membranes

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Biology systems harvest solar energy to regulate ions and molecules precisely across cell membrane that is essential to maintain their life sustainability. Recently, artificial light-driven directional ion transport through graphene oxide membranes has been established, where the membrane converts light power into a transmembrane motive force. Herein, we report a silver nanoparticles decorated graphene oxide membranes for enhanced photo-driven ionic transport. Asymmetric light stimulated charge carrier dynamics, such as advanced light absorption efficiency, extended lifetime and efficient separation of photo-excited charge carriers, are account for the ion-driven force enhancement. Based on metal nanoparticles decoration, the concept of the guest-interactions of plasmon-enhanced photo-driven ion transport in two-dimentional layered membranes will stimulate broad researches in sensing, energy storage and conversion and water treatment.

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This work was financially funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51603211) and the 111 Project (No. B14009).

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  1. Yaping Feng and Haoyu Dai contributed equally to this work.

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  1. CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Yaping Feng, Haoyu Dai, Jianjun Chen & Lei Jiang

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yaping Feng

  3. National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Engineering Research Center of Beijing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China

    Yi Zhang

  4. Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technologies, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, 430200, China

    Fengxiang Chen

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Feng, Y., Dai, H., Zhang, Y. et al. Enhanced photo-driven ion pump through silver nanoparticles decorated graphene oxide membranes. Nano Res. 15, 612–616 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3527-4

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