A new tapered flow channel design for electrodes improves the efficiency of battery-based seawater desalination, potentially ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and Aarhus University, Denmark, researchers have confirmed protonic conductivity over ...

Interdigitated Electrodes: A type of electrode configuration used in semiconductor devices to enhance the electric field and improve performance. This Nature Research Intelligence Topic summary is ...

Engineers have found a way to eliminate the fluid flow 'dead zones' that plague the types of electrodes used for battery-based seawater desalination. The new technique uses a physics-based tapered ...

culminating in a recent study demonstrating the first use of electrodes containing tiny microchannels called interdigitated flow fields. The group’s new study also incorporates IDFFs in ...

More information: Md Habibur Rahman et al, Tapered, Interdigitated Channels for Uniform, Low-Pressure Flow through Porous Electrodes for Desalination and Beyond, Electrochimica Acta (2025).

Innovative tapered channel designs in interdigitated flow fields enhance hydraulic conductance, addressing flow inefficiencies in electrochemical applications.

Researchers have made an exciting breakthrough to improve desalination technology by eliminating “dead zones” in fluid flow.