Emerging hydrovoltaic technology

Z Zhang, X Li, J Yin, Y Xu, W Fei, M Xue… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Water contains tremendous energy in a variety of forms, but very little of this energy has yet
been harnessed. Nanostructured materials can generate electricity on interaction with water …

Microbial biofilm-based hydrovoltaic technology

J Lü, G Ren, Q Hu, C Rensing, S Zhou - Trends in Biotechnology, 2023 - cell.com
Hydrovoltaic electricity generation (HEG) utilizes the latent environmental heat stored in
water, and subsequently harvests the electrical energy. However, sustainable HEG has …

Induced potential in porous carbon films through water vapor absorption

K Liu, P Yang, S Li, J Li, T Ding, G Xue… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Sustainable electrical potential of tens of millivolts can be induced by water vapor adsorption
on a piece of porous carbon film that has two sides with different functional group contents …

Bio-inspired two-dimensional nanofluidic generators based on a layered graphene hydrogel membrane.

W Guo, C Cheng, Y Wu, Y Jiang, J Gao… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2013 - europepmc.org
An electrogenetic layered graphene hydrogel membrane (GHM) possesses ultra-large
interlayer spacing of about 10 nm, forming charged 2D nanocapillaries between graphene …

Direct electricity generation mediated by molecular interactions with low dimensional carbon materials—a mechanistic perspective

AT Liu, G Zhang, AL Cottrill, Y Kunai… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Next‐generation off‐the‐grid electronic systems call for alternative modes of energy
harvesting. The past two decades have witnessed the evolution of a wide spectrum of low …

Graphene based two dimensional hybrid nanogenerator for concurrently harvesting energy from sunlight and water flow

H Zhong, Z Wu, X Li, W Xu, S Xu, S Zhang, Z Xu… - Carbon, 2016 - Elsevier
Harvesting energy from multiple sources in our living environment is highly demanded, not
only to cope with the increasing energy crises, but also to realize the self-powered …

Coating performance of hexagonal boron nitride and graphene layers

X Li, Y Long, L Ma, J Li, J Yin, W Guo - 2D Materials, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The shrinking size and compact structure of modern precision equipment require ultra-thin
but reliable functional coating. Few layers of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and graphene …

Exceptional high Seebeck coefficient and gas-flow-induced voltage in multilayer graphene

X Li, J Yin, J Zhou, Q Wang, W Guo - Applied Physics Letters, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Seebeck coefficient of graphene is an important parameter for defining its thermoelectric
performance and thus practical applications, such as gas-flow-induced voltage. Here, we …

Adjusting the thermoelectric properties of copper (i) oxide–graphite–polymer pastes and the applications of such flexible composites

V Andrei, K Bethke, K Rademann - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a facile alternative to other well known strategies for synthesizing flexible
thermoelectric materials. Instead of printing thin active layers on flexible substrates or do** …

Galvanism of continuous ionic liquid flow over graphene grids

Y He, J Lao, T Yang, X Li, X Zang, X Li, M Zhu… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Flow-induced voltage generation on graphene has attracted great attention, but harvesting
voltage by ionic liquid continuously flowing along graphene at macro-scale is still a …