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Sun W, Dong J, Li W, Gao X, Liu J, Nan D. An Anthocyanin-Based Eco-Friendly Triboelectric Nanogenerator for pH Monitoring and Energy Harvesting. Molecules 2024; 29:1925. [PMID: 38731417 PMCID: PMC11085175 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29091925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2024] [Revised: 04/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024] Open
Abstract
In recent years, renewable and sustainable triboelectric nanogenerators have attracted attention due to their high energy conversion rate, and enhancing their functionality further contributes to their applicability across various fields. A pH-sensitive triboelectric nanogenerator (pH-TENG) has been prepared by electrostatic spinning technology, with anthocyanin as the pH indicator and environmentally friendly polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as the substrate. Among many friction-negative materials, the pH-TENG exhibits the best combination with fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) and yields an open-circuit voltage of 62 V, a short-circuit current of 370 nA, and a transferred charge of 21.8 nC. At a frequency of 3 Hz, it can charge a 4.7 μF capacitor to 2 V within 45 s, effectively powering a thermometer. Furthermore, the presence of anthocyanin does not affect the pH-TENG's power generation performance and enables the monitoring of a wide range of environmental pH changes, with an ΔE change of 28.8 ± 7.6. Therefore, pH-TENG prepared with environmentally friendly materials can bring new available materials to the biological and medical fields.
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- Wuliang Sun
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
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- Institute of Applied Nanotechnology, Jiaxing 314031, China
- Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101400, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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Ge B, Hu L, Yu X, Wang L, Fernandez C, Yang N, Liang Q, Yang QH. Engineering Triple-Phase Interfaces around the Anode toward Practical Alkali Metal-Air Batteries. Adv Mater 2024:e2400937. [PMID: 38634714 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202400937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2024] [Revised: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024]
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Alkali metal-air batteries (AMABs) promise ultrahigh gravimetric energy densities, while the inherent poor cycle stability hinders their practical application. To address this challenge, most previous efforts are devoted to advancing the air cathodes with high electrocatalytic activity. Recent studies have underlined the solid-liquid-gas triple-phase interface around the anode can play far more significant roles than previously acknowledged by the scientific community. Besides the bottlenecks of uncontrollable dendrite growth and gas evolution in conventional alkali metal batteries, the corrosive gases, intermediate oxygen species, and redox mediators in AMABs cause more severe anode corrosion and structural collapse, posing greater challenges to the stabilization of the anode triple-phase interface. This work aims to provide a timely perspective on the anode interface engineering for durable AMABs. Taking the Li-air battery as a typical example, this critical review shows the latest developed anode stabilization strategies, including formulating electrolytes to build protective interphases, fabricating advanced anodes to improve their anti-corrosion capability, and designing functional separator to shield the corrosive species. Finally, the remaining scientific and technical issues from the prospects of anode interface engineering are highlighted, particularly materials system engineering, for the practical use of AMABs.
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- Bingcheng Ge
- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Research Institute for Smart Energy, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Research Institute for Smart Energy, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Research Institute for Smart Energy, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- Fujian XFH New Energy Materials Co, Ltd, No. 38, Shuidong Industry Park, Yongan, 366000, China
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- School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, AB107QB, UK
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- Department of Chemistry & IMO-IMOMEC, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, 3590, Belgium
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- Key Laboratory of Rare Earth, Ganjiang Innovation Academy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, 341000, China
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- Nanoyang Group, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon and Electrochemical Energy Storage, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, TianjinUniversity, Tianjin, 300072, China
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Zhao L, Zhang W, Yuan Y, Tong L, Liu J, Liu J, Cai Y, Gao Y. Mo:BiVO 4 Nanoparticles-Based Optical Modulator and Its Application in a 2-μm Pulsed Laser. Nanomaterials (Basel) 2021; 11:3243. [PMID: 34947592 PMCID: PMC8704990 DOI: 10.3390/nano11123243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2021] [Revised: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 11/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Mo:BiVO4 nanoparticles were employed as an optical modulator in a Q-switched all-solid-state Tm:YAP laser for the first time. The nonlinear optical parameters of Mo:BiVO4 nanoparticles in the 2-μm region were characterized by measuring nonlinear transmission. Saturation intensity was 718 MW/cm2, and the modulation depth was 12.3%. A stable pulse sequence was acquired with a 70.08 kHz maximum repetition rate and an 821 ns pulse width. The maximum output average power was 153 mW, corresponding to 2.18 μJ single pulse energy and 2.67 W peak power. Although the response wavelength of Mo:BiVO4 is in visible light region, our experimental results demonstrates that a saturable absorption effect for wavelengths much longer than visible light (2 μm wavelength) is still possible due to sub-bandgap absorption. Therefore, we experimentally proved that Mo:BiVO4 nanoparticles are a great candidate for use as an optical modulator of a 2-μm pulsed laser.
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- Lina Zhao
- Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China; (L.Z.); (W.Z.); (Y.Y.); (L.T.); (J.L.); (J.L.)
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China
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- Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China; (L.Z.); (W.Z.); (Y.Y.); (L.T.); (J.L.); (J.L.)
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- Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China; (L.Z.); (W.Z.); (Y.Y.); (L.T.); (J.L.); (J.L.)
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- Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China; (L.Z.); (W.Z.); (Y.Y.); (L.T.); (J.L.); (J.L.)
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- Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China; (L.Z.); (W.Z.); (Y.Y.); (L.T.); (J.L.); (J.L.)
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China
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- Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China; (L.Z.); (W.Z.); (Y.Y.); (L.T.); (J.L.); (J.L.)
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China
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- Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China; (L.Z.); (W.Z.); (Y.Y.); (L.T.); (J.L.); (J.L.)
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China
- School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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- Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China; (L.Z.); (W.Z.); (Y.Y.); (L.T.); (J.L.); (J.L.)
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, No 88, East Wenhua Road, Jinan 250014, China
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Peng D, Huang Z, Liu Y, Chen Y, Wang F, Ponomarenko SA, Cai Y. Optical coherence encryption with structured random light. Photonix 2021; 2:6. [PMID: 34841255 PMCID: PMC8610016 DOI: 10.1186/s43074-021-00027-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2021] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Information encryption with optical technologies has become increasingly important due to remarkable multidimensional capabilities of light fields. However, the optical encryption protocols proposed to date have been primarily based on the first-order field characteristics, which are strongly affected by interference effects and make the systems become quite unstable during light-matter interaction. Here, we introduce an alternative optical encryption protocol whereby the information is encoded into the second-order spatial coherence distribution of a structured random light beam via a generalized van Cittert-Zernike theorem. We show that the proposed approach has two key advantages over its conventional counterparts. First, the complexity of measuring the spatial coherence distribution of light enhances the encryption protocol security. Second, the relative insensitivity of the second-order statistical characteristics of light to environmental noise makes the protocol robust against the environmental fluctuations, e.g, the atmospheric turbulence. We carry out experiments to demonstrate the feasibility of the coherence-based encryption method with the aid of a fractional Fourier transform. Our results open up a promising avenue for further research into optical encryption in complex environments.
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- Deming Peng
- School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006 China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006 China
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- Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulation & Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014 China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006 China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006 China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 2X4 Canada
- Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2 Canada
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006 China
- Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulation & Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014 China
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