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Conventional commercial ion-exchange polymer membranes suffer from inherent limitations, including low transmembrane flux, insufficient ion permselectivity, severe interfacial concentration polarization, poor salt tolerance, and unsatisfactory long-term structural stability. These drawbacks greatly restrict the energy conversion efficiency and large-scale engineering application of reverse electrodialysis (RED). Conductive polymers (CPs), mainly including polypyrrole (PPy), polyaniline (PANI), polythiophene (PTh), and their derivatives, possess the distinctive merits of tunable surface charge density and polarity, outstanding electronic conductivity, facile nanochannel structural regulation, and reversible redox responsiveness, making them ideal building blocks for advanced nanofluidic membranes for high-efficiency osmotic energy conversion. 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