Hydrovoltaic technology: from mechanism to applications

X Wang, F Lin, X Wang, S Fang, J Tan, W Chu… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Water is a colossal reservoir of clean energy as it adsorbs thirty-five percent of solar energy
reaching the Earth's surface. More than half of the adsorbed energy turns into latent heat for …

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 …

Water-evaporation-induced electricity with nanostructured carbon materials

G Xue, Y Xu, T Ding, J Li, J Yin, W Fei, Y Cao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Water evaporation is a ubiquitous natural process that harvests thermal energy from the
ambient environment. It has previously been utilized in a number of applications, including …

Achieving efficient power generation by designing bioinspired and multi-layered interfacial evaporator

Z Sun, C Han, S Gao, Z Li, M **g, H Yu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Water evaporation is a natural phase change phenomenon occurring any time and
everywhere. Enormous efforts have been made to harvest energy from this ubiquitous …

Recent advances and challenges for solar-driven water evaporation system toward applications

VD Dao, NH Vu, S Yun - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Solar-driven water evaporation system has attracted enormous attention in recent years.
This is due to the widespread use of natural sources such as solar energy and water …

Graphene: an emerging electronic material

NO Weiss, H Zhou, L Liao, Y Liu, S Jiang… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice, offers a number of
fundamentally superior qualities that make it a promising material for a wide range of …

Triboelectric nanogenerator array as a probe for in situ dynamic map** of interface charge transfer at a liquid–solid contacting

J Zhang, S Lin, ZL Wang - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Contact between water droplets with hydrophobic surfaces is a common phenomenon at
functional interfaces, and it has been extensively studied. However, quantifying the charge …

Generating electricity by moving a droplet of ionic liquid along graphene

J Yin, X Li, J Yu, Z Zhang, J Zhou, W Guo - Nature nanotechnology, 2014 - nature.com
Since the early nineteenth century, it has been known that an electric potential can be
generated by driving an ionic liquid through fine channels or holes under a pressure …

Triboelectric nanogenerator as a probe for measuring the charge transfer between liquid and solid surfaces

J Zhang, S Lin, M Zheng, ZL Wang - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
The phenomenon of triboelectricity involves the flow of charged species across an interface,
but conclusively establishing the nature of the charge transfer has proven extremely difficult …

Emerging hydrovoltaic technology based on carbon black and porous carbon materials: A mini review

S Jiao, M Liu, Y Li, H Abrha, J Wang, Y Dai, J Li… - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydrovoltaic technology has attracted intense research interest due to its capacity to directly
harvest green energy from water flow/evaporation. Carbon black (CB) and porous carbon …