Microfluidic Horizons 2026

Session

Monday 18/05, 10 - 13; Auditorium

M1-A

May 18, 2026, 10:00 AM

48. Brain-inspired nanofluidics with electromechanical ionic memories

5/18/26, 11:00 AM

Nanofluidics and molecular transport

Oral

Living organisms use ions flowing and accumulating within (sub)nanoscale aqueous protein channels to process information. This process occurs at energy costs orders of magnitude lower than those of man-made computers. The contrast is striking: Lee Sedol defeated AlphaGo in one game while consuming only ~20 W, about 50,000 times less power than the compute infrastructure supporting AlphaGo....

141. Hidden Ionic Current Loops in Ion-Exchange Membranes Under Open-Circuit Flow Conditions

Corentin Tregouet (MIE, CBI, ESPCI Paris, Université PSL, CNRS 75005 Paris, France)

5/18/26, 11:20 AM

Nanofluidics and molecular transport

Oral

Ion-exchange membranes play a central role in micro- and nanofluidic technologies for desalination, osmotic energy conversion, and electrochemical separation. Their performance is commonly characterized by macroscopic quantities such as selectivity and open-circuit voltage (OCV), often assumed to be intrinsic material properties. However, experimental observations increasingly challenge this...