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Feng JC, Xia H. Application of nanoarchitectonics in moist-electric generation. BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY 2022; 13:1185-1200. [PMID: 36348936 PMCID: PMC9623139 DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.13.99] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The consumption of energy is an important resource that cannot be ignored in modern society. Non-renewable forms of energy, such as coal, natural gas, and oil, have always been important strategic resources and are always facing a crisis of shortage. Therefore, there is an urgent need for green renewable forms of energy. As an emerging green energy source, the moist-electric generator (MEG) has been studied in recent years and may become an energy source that can be utilized in daily life. Along with the advancement of technological means, nanoarchitectonics play an important role in MEG devices. This review aims to provide a comprehensive summary of the fundamentals of the MEG from the perspective of different material classifications and to provide guidance for future work in the field of MEGs. The effects of various parameters and structural designs on the output power, recent important literature and works, the mechanism of liquid-solid interactions at the nanoscale, and the application status and further potential of MEG devices are discussed in this review. It is expected that this review may provide valuable knowledge for future MEG research.
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- Jia-Cheng Feng
- State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun130012, China
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- State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun130012, China
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Sun Z, Zhang W, Guo J, Song J, Deng X. Is Heat Really Beneficial to Water Evaporation-Driven Electricity? J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:12370-12375. [PMID: 34939816 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Water evaporation-driven electricity (EDE) has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years as a novel renewable energy. Previous works have demonstrated that a high evaporation rate leads to a large output voltage. Hence, it is believed that heating is beneficial to EDE by enhancing the evaporation rate. However, experimental verification is lacking. This study demonstrates that heat induces a thermodiffusion effect that drives hydrated ions in the opposite direction of the evaporation-driven water flow, which reduces the output voltage as a synergistic effect. Our findings could be useful for designing a multifunction EDE generator and provide insight into the electricity generation mechanism.
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- Zhengnan Sun
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, P. R. China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, P. R. China
- School of Automation Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, P. R. China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, P. R. China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen 518110, P. R. China
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Dong J, Fan FR, Tian ZQ. Droplet-based nanogenerators for energy harvesting and self-powered sensing. NANOSCALE 2021; 13:17290-17309. [PMID: 34647553 DOI: 10.1039/d1nr05386h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The energy crisis is a continuing topic for all human beings, threatening the development of human society. Accordingly, harvesting energy from the surrounding environment, such as wind, water flow and solar power, has become a promising direction for the research community. Water contains tremendous energy in a variety of forms, such as rivers, ocean waves, tides, and raindrops. Among them, raindrop energy is the most abundant. Raindrop energy not only can complement other forms of energy, such as solar energy, but also have potential applications in wearable and universal energy collectors. Over the past few years, droplet-based electricity nanogenerators (DENG) have attracted significant attention due to their advantages of small size and high power. To date, a variety of fundamental materials and ingenious structural designs have been proposed to achieve efficient droplet-based energy harvesting. The research and application of DENG in various fields have received widespread attention. In this review, we focus on the fundamental mechanism and recent progress of droplet-based nanogenerators in the following three aspects: droplet properties, energy harvesting and self-powered sensing. Finally, some challenges and further outlook for droplet-based nanogenerators are discussed to boost the future development of this promising field.
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- Jianing Dong
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Tan Kah Kee Innovation Laboratory, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Tan Kah Kee Innovation Laboratory, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Tan Kah Kee Innovation Laboratory, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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Peng H, Wang D, Fu S. Programmable Asymmetric Nanofluidic Photothermal Textile Umbrella for Concurrent Salt Management and In Situ Power Generation During Long-Time Solar Steam Generation. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:47549-47559. [PMID: 34583504 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c12292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Although solar-driven seawater desalination affords a highly promising strategy for freshwater-electricity harvesting by employing abundant solar energy and ocean resources, the inevitable salt crystallization on the surface of evaporators causes a sharp decline in evaporation performance and the poor electricity output of most coupled inflexible evaporation-power generation devices limits the scalability and durability in long-time practical applications. Herein, we report a simple programmable nanofluidic photothermal textile umbrella by asymmetrically depositing MoS2 nanosheets on cotton textiles, which allows for controllable gravity-assisted edge-preferential salt crystallization/harvesting via self-manipulated saline solution transportation in the wet umbrella and simultaneous drenching-induced electrokinetic voltage generation (0.535 V)/storage (charging a capacitor to 12.2 V) in over 120 h of the nonstop solar desalination process (with 7.5 wt % saline solution). Notably, the morphology and salt crystallization areas can be managed via the programmed umbrellas. Moreover, the asymmetric textile umbrellas possess admirable sewable features for large-scale integration to enhance the evaporation and voltage output efficiency. Importantly, this textile umbrella evaporator shows excellent output stability and durability even after 40 times of washing. This work may pave a scalable way to design programmable solar evaporators for sustainable seawater desalination with scalabilities of zero-waste discharge, valuable resource recovery, and energy harvesting.
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- Hongyun Peng
- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center For Digital Textile Inkjet Printing, Key Laboratory of Eco-Textile, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Jiangnan University, Ministry of Education, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center For Digital Textile Inkjet Printing, Key Laboratory of Eco-Textile, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Jiangnan University, Ministry of Education, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center For Digital Textile Inkjet Printing, Key Laboratory of Eco-Textile, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Jiangnan University, Ministry of Education, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
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Peng H, Wang D, Fu S. Unidirectionally Driving Nanofluidic Transportation via an Asymmetric Textile Pump for Simultaneous Salt-Resistant Solar Desalination and Drenching-Induced Power Generation. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:38405-38415. [PMID: 34342973 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c10877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Solar-driven seawater desalination provides a promising technology for sustainable water energy harvesting. Although tremendous efforts have been dedicated to developing efficient evaporators, the challenge of preventing salt accumulation while simultaneously realizing high-performance steam-electricity cogeneration remains to be addressed. In this work, inspired by the water and solute transportation in plants via the wicking mechanism, a one-way asymmetric nanofluidic photothermal evaporator fabricated by disproportionately depositing photothermal MXene nanosheets on a hydrophilic cotton textile is reported for simultaneous freshwater and power production. By unidirectionally driving dynamic saline transportation via this photothermal cotton textile pump, this evaporator not only enables self-operating salt rejection for stable steam generation but also affords continuous electric power generation induced by the formation of an asymmetric double electrode layer within MXene nanochannels under the drenching state. Specifically, the solar-driven evaporation rate and voltage generation reach 1.38 kg/m2/h (with a conversion efficiency of 83.1%) and 363 mV under 1 sun irradiation, respectively. Notably, this designed nanofluidic system suffers negligible performance depreciation after 30 h of operation and washing 15 times, which indicates its outstanding stability and reusability. This facile design of the asymmetric nanofluidic photothermal system may provide prospective opportunities for scaling up sustainable freshwater and electric power production.
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- Hongyun Peng
- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Digital Textile Inkjet Printing, Key Laboratory of Eco-Textile, Ministry of Education, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Digital Textile Inkjet Printing, Key Laboratory of Eco-Textile, Ministry of Education, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Digital Textile Inkjet Printing, Key Laboratory of Eco-Textile, Ministry of Education, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China
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Wu M, Peng M, Liang Z, Liu Y, Zhao B, Li D, Wang Y, Zhang J, Sun Y, Jiang L. Printed Honeycomb-Structured Reduced Graphene Oxide Film for Efficient and Continuous Evaporation-Driven Electricity Generation from Salt Solution. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:26989-26997. [PMID: 34085819 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c04508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Water-evaporation-induced electricity generation provides an ideal strategy to solve growing energy demand and supply power for self-powered systems because of its advantages of a highly spontaneous process, continuous power generation, and low cost. However, the reported evaporation-induced generators are limited to working only in deionized (DI) water, leading to a low output power. Herein, we utilize a modified multiple ion mode to demonstrate that the streaming potential can be optimized in microchannels filled with salt solution and achieve an enhanced evaporation-induced output power in salt solution by a generator based on honeycomb-structured reduced graphene oxide (rGO) film with abundant interconnected microchannels. This generator enables an around 2-fold open-circuit voltage (Voc) and a 3.3-fold power density of 0.91 μW cm-2 in 0.6 M NaCl solution compared to that in DI water. Experiments evidence that the honeycomb structure with abundant interconnected microchannels plays a key role in achieving high and stable output power in salt solution because of its large specific surface area and excellent ion-exchange capacity. Notably, it can work at all times of day and night for more than 240 h in natural seawater, delivering a stable Voc of ∼0.83 V with a power density of 0.79 μW cm-2. This study expands a working solution for water-evaporation-induced electricity generation from DI water to natural seawater, advancing a great step toward practical applications.
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- Miao Wu
- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
- School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
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- College of Energy, Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials Innovations and Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies of Jiangsu Province, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
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Bošković MV, Šljukić B, Vasiljević Radović D, Radulović K, Rašljić Rafajilović M, Frantlović M, Sarajlić M. Full-Self-Powered Humidity Sensor Based on Electrochemical Aluminum-Water Reaction. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21103486. [PMID: 34067738 PMCID: PMC8156808 DOI: 10.3390/s21103486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Revised: 05/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A detailed examination of the principle of operation behind the functioning of the full-self-powered humidity sensor is presented. The sensor has been realized as a structure consisting of an interdigitated capacitor with aluminum thin-film digits. In this work, the details of its fabrication and activation are described in detail. The performed XRD, FTIR, SEM, AFM, and EIS analyses, as well as noise measurements, revealed that the dominant process of electricity generation is the electrochemical reaction between the sensor's aluminum electrodes and the water from humid air in the presence of oxygen, which was the main goal of this work. The response of the sensor to human breath is also presented as a demonstration of its possible practical application.
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- Marko V. Bošković
- Department of Microelectronic Technologies, Institute of Chemistry, Technology, and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Njegoševa 12, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; (D.V.R.); (K.R.); (M.R.R.); (M.F.)
- Correspondence: (M.V.B.); (M.S.)
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- Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Studentski Trg 12-16, 11158 Belgrade, Serbia;
- CeFEMA, Instituto Superior Téchnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Microelectronic Technologies, Institute of Chemistry, Technology, and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Njegoševa 12, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; (D.V.R.); (K.R.); (M.R.R.); (M.F.)
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- Department of Microelectronic Technologies, Institute of Chemistry, Technology, and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Njegoševa 12, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; (D.V.R.); (K.R.); (M.R.R.); (M.F.)
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- Department of Microelectronic Technologies, Institute of Chemistry, Technology, and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Njegoševa 12, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; (D.V.R.); (K.R.); (M.R.R.); (M.F.)
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- Department of Microelectronic Technologies, Institute of Chemistry, Technology, and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Njegoševa 12, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; (D.V.R.); (K.R.); (M.R.R.); (M.F.)
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- Department of Microelectronic Technologies, Institute of Chemistry, Technology, and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Njegoševa 12, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; (D.V.R.); (K.R.); (M.R.R.); (M.F.)
- Correspondence: (M.V.B.); (M.S.)
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Zou Y, Bo L, Li Z. Recent progress in human body energy harvesting for smart bioelectronic system. FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fmre.2021.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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