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ArticleNature communications2026

Dissociating water clusters via polyhydroxy quaternized interface for enhanced water permeation in nanochannels.

Lei Xu, Chenghai Lu, Yanyan Zhang, Fuyi Wang, Guangzhi He, Chengzhi Hu, Jiuhui Qu

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Lei Xu *Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Regional Environment and Sustainability, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-1793-6681
Chenghai Lu *Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Regional Environment and Sustainability, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Yanyan ZhangUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-145X
Fuyi WangUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0962-1260
Guangzhi HeKey Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Regional Environment and Sustainability, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1770-3522
Chengzhi HuKey Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Regional Environment and Sustainability, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. czhu@rcees.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9898-835X
Jiuhui QuKey Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Regional Environment and Sustainability, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9177-093X

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 22474145National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52125003National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52330001National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52400016
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Abstract

Water clusters with distinct structures in confined nanochannels exhibit unusual transport phenomena such as fast permeation, yet how to functionalize nanochannels to regulate this process and enhance water transport remains elusive. Herein, we report a water transmembrane transport mechanism based on the dissociation of water clusters and, accordingly, develop a highly permeable nanofiltration membrane with polyhydroxy quaternized interface. The results, observed by in situ liquid time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry in combination with molecular dynamics simulation, reveal that the functional groups (-OH and quaternary-N⁺) of membrane pore entrances can enthalpically/entropically favorably dissociate water clusters, i.e., (H

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