Recent progress in Green Ammonia: Production, applications, assessment; barriers, and its role in achieving the sustainable development goals

AG Olabi, MA Abdelkareem, M Al-Murisi… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Fossil fuels are no longer accepted as the sole energy source with their environmental
impacts and fluctuating price. Green hydrogen is considered a potential candidate for fossil …

Harvesting blue energy based on salinity and temperature gradient: challenges, solutions, and opportunities

M Rastgar, K Moradi, C Burroughs, A Hemmati… - Chemical …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with power generation from fossil fuel combustion
account for 25% of global emissions and, thus, contribute greatly to climate change …

Nanofluidics for osmotic energy conversion

Z Zhang, L Wen, L Jiang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021‏ - nature.com
The osmotic pressure difference between river water and seawater is a promising source of
renewable energy. However, current osmotic energy conversion processes show limited …

Thermodynamic and kinetic understanding for managing the controllability of interfacial polymerization

C Liu, CY Zhu, C Zhang, HC Yang, ZK Xu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Interfacial polymerization serves as a revolutionary technique to create polymer membranes
such as polyamides, polyesters, and covalent organic frameworks, holding exceptional …

Cellulose ionic conductors with high differential thermal voltage for low-grade heat harvesting

T Li, X Zhang, SD Lacey, R Mi, X Zhao, F Jiang… - Nature materials, 2019‏ - nature.com
Converting low-grade heat into useful electricity requires a technology that is efficient and
cost effective. Here, we demonstrate a cellulosic membrane that relies on sub-nanoscale …

Liquid-state thermocells: Opportunities and challenges for low-grade heat harvesting

J Duan, B Yu, L Huang, B Hu, M Xu, G Feng, J Zhou - Joule, 2021‏ - cell.com
Summary Low-grade heat (< 100° C) is abundant and ubiquitous but is generally discarded
owing to a lack of cost-effective recovery technologies. Emerging liquid-state thermocells …

Constructing flexible film electrode with porous layered structure by MXene/SWCNTs/PANI ternary composite for efficient low‐grade thermal energy harvest

S Wei, J Ma, D Wu, B Chen, C Du… - Advanced Functional …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Thermal energy, constituting the majority of the energy lost through various inefficiencies, is
abundant and ubiquitous. With thermogalvanic effect, thermocells (TECs) can directly …

Thermodynamics of ionic thermoelectrics for low-grade heat harvesting

X Qian, Z Ma, Q Huang, H Jiang, R Yang - ACS Energy Letters, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
More than half of the waste heat rejected into the environment has temperatures lower than
100° C, which accounts for nearly 85 PWh/year worldwide. Efficiently harvesting low-grade …

Flexible quasi‐solid state ionogels with remarkable seebeck coefficient and high thermoelectric properties

H Cheng, X He, Z Fan, J Ouyang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric materials can be used to harvest low‐grade heat that is otherwise dissipated
to the environment. But the conventional thermoelectric materials that are semiconductors or …

Nanoscale ion regulation in wood‐based structures and their device applications

C Chen, L Hu - Advanced Materials, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ion transport and regulation are fundamental processes for various devices and applications
related to energy storage and conversion, environmental remediation, sensing, ionotronics …