Iontronics is the world's first international peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal fully dedicated to Iontronics

Joined February 2026
🌊 How can a salinity gradient be converted into electricity? Chemical-potential differences drive ion transport, while ion selectivity, EDLs and nanoconfinement enable charge separation and osmotic energy conversion. 🔗mp.weixin.qq.com/s/8qU6FvzM7…
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🖌️How can electronic skin become intelligent? In our latest #Iontronics interview, IEEE Fellow & FRSE Prof. @RavinderSDahiya discusses adaptive soft skins, sensing–memory–computing, and iontronics’ potential as an information-processing substrate. oaepublish.com/interviews/io…
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🆕 New Review in Iontronics! ❓️Is higher ionic conductivity always better? 📜Prof. @baiwubin and co-authors explore ionogel design, key performance trade-offs, and application-specific needs across energy storage and bioelectronics. 📖 oaepublish.com/articles/iont…
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❓️Can spent Ni-rich cathodes be restored by adding lithium alone? 📚This #Iontronics review links cathode degradation to coupled failures in ion and electron transport—and examines strategies to repair both. 🔗Read the review: oaepublish.com/articles/iont… #BatteryRecycling
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💡What makes an interface a chemical reactor? 💧Prof. Richard N. Zare explores how ions, electric fields and solvation couple chemical reactivity with energy conversion—and why interfacial chemistry matters for future #Iontronics. oaepublish.com/articles/iont… #Microdroplets
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📊High thermovoltage—but can it deliver lasting power? 📝New in #Iontronics: Prof. Hulin Zhang’s team explores how ionic thermoelectric gels can achieve sustained output under load, examining coupled mechanisms, transport trade-offs and reliability. oaepublish.com/articles/iont…
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No p–n junction—so why can a nanopore still behave like a diode? ⚡ Ionic current rectification (ICR) emerges when opposite biases create different ion distributions, local fields and conductance states. Read more: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5rhimQU72… #Iontronics #IonTransport #Nanofluidics
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⚙️Can nature’s ion selectivity scale up? 📋This #Iontronics review explores 2D organic framework membranes with tunable sub-nanometer pores and chemistry for selective ion transport, energy conversion and water purification. oaepublish.com/articles/iont… #Nanofluidics
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📢 Iontronics Volume 2, Issue 3 is out! 📚 10 articles exploring nanofluidics, ionic logic, neuromorphic computing, interfacial chemistry & bioelectronics. 🔬 Explore the latest advances in #Iontronics! 🔗 oaepublish.com/volumes/ions.…
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🏆 37 Iontronics editorial team members named among the World's Top 2% Scientists (2026)! 🌟 Honorary EiC Prof.Zhong Lin Wang ranks #1 globally in BOTH career-long & single-year impact—7 consecutive years at #1 annually! Congratulations to all! 🎉 #Iontronics #Top2Scientists
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Salt crystals as an ionic switch? 🧂⚡ A new Nature Communications study uses in situ salt precipitation–dissolution for reversible nanofluidic ion gating, with ON/OFF ratios >100 and AND/OR ionic logic. Read our take: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/OTxKkIbjT…
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⚡ Fast ions, less water. A Nature Materials study from Yuanwen Jiang’s team reports supramolecular ion channels enabling ~1.3 μs OECT response, 28-day aqueous stability, and in vivo dopamine sensing. Read our highlight: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QSslCht3s… #Iontronics #OECT #Bioelectronics
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🌕 Iontronics wishes you a joyful Mid-Autumn Festival! May your days be filled with peace, joy, and rewarding discoveries. ✨ #MidAutumnFestival #Iontronics
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📜New perspective in #Iontronics 💧 📌How can hydrogel iontronics become stable, reliable & intelligent? Prpf. Younghoon Lee et al. discuss ion transport, interface stability, device integration & Physical AI—key challenges shaping the field. 🔗 oaepublish.com/articles/iont…
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💡How can ion transport enhance molecular sensing? Asymmetric OmpF nanopores reshape electroosmotic flow, enabling robust peptide capture and single-molecule readout. 🫧 Follow Iontronics for more frontiers in ion transport & iontronics. #Iontronics #Nanopore #IonTransport
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Why do ions “line up” near a charged interface? 💧 🔬Latest Iontronics Micro Q&A explores how the electrical double layer shapes ion transport, nanoconfinement, energy conversion and information processing. Read more: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ZwavB5q91… #Iontronics #EDL #IonTransport
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🔎 Iontronics Research Highlight How do ions move through an OECT channel—and where does failure begin? A new Nature Electronics study by Wei Huang, Cong Chen, Liang-Wen Feng et al. maps swelling from channel edges inward, guiding 15M-cycle vOECTs. #Iontronics #IonicTransport
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🔎 Iontronics Research Highlight We spotlight a Nature Electronics study by Ziguang Zhao, Lei Jiang et al. on cascaded heterointerface ion traps for ionic memory, plasticity & neural-signal modulation. More frontiers 👉 oaepublish.com/ions #Iontronics #Bioiontronics
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⚡ Can contact-generated charges drive chemistry? New in Iontronics: Di Wei, Carita Kvarnström et al. explore CE-Chemistry, connecting charge transfer, EDLs, local electric fields & reactivity. 🔗oaepublish.com/articles/iont… #ContactElectrification #InterfacialChemistry #Iontronics
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💡How can ion transport achieve both high flux and selectivity? 📃A new Iontronics Highlight explores dual-confinement COF nanofluidics for selective ion transport and osmotic energy conversion. 🔗oaepublish.com/articles/iont… #Iontronics #Nanofluidics
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