Controlling mass and energy diffusion with metamaterials

F Yang, Z Zhang, L Xu, Z Liu, P **, P Zhuang… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Diffusion driven by temperature or concentration gradients is a fundamental mechanism of
energy and mass transport that inherently differs from wave propagation in both physical …

Advances in flexible thermoelectric materials and devices fabricated by magnetron sputtering

B Hu, XL Shi, T Cao, M Li, W Chen, WD Liu… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the direct conversion between thermal and electrical energy, thermoelectric materials
and their devices exhibit great potential for power generation and refrigeration. With the …

Integrated Piezoelectric/Pyroelectric Sensing from Organic–Inorganic Perovskite Nanocomposites

B Chai, K Shi, Y Wang, Y Liu, F Liu, L Zhu, X Huang - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Flexible ferroelectric materials are in high demand in emerging energy harvesting and self-
powered sensing electronics. However, current flexible ferroelectric polymers, such as poly …

Electronic cooling and energy harvesting using ferroelectric polymer composites

K Zou, P Bai, K Li, F Luo, J Liang, L Lin, R Ma… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Thermal management emerges as a grand challenge of next-generation electronics. Efforts
to develop compact, solid-state cooling devices have led to the exploration of the …

2D‐Pyroelectric Materials for Waste Thermal Energy Harvesting and Beyond

A Kumar, D Mandal - Advanced Energy Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polar 2D materials hold the emerging functionalities such as ferro‐, piezo‐, and pyro‐
electric properties. On account of infrared‐active low bandgap and polar nature at reduced …

High performance photothermal carbon nanotubes/nanostructured hydrogel for solar electricity production and solar water sterilization

W Luo, X Xuan, J Shen, P Cheng, D Wang… - Applied Surface …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar energy is a promising renewable energy source with the potential to contribute to
sustainable development. Efficient photothermal conversion is critical for solar energy …

Sustainable heat harvesting via thermal nonlinearity

Y Zhou, T Ding, G Xu, S Yang, CW Qiu, J He… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Converting the pervasive low-grade environmental waste heat of approximately 200 EJ
globally per year (equivalent to 27 Gt of CO2 emission) into electricity promises energy …

Virus‐Based Pyroelectricity

H Kim, K Okada, I Chae, B Lim, S Ji, Y Kwon… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The first observation of heat‐induced electrical potential generation on a virus and its
detection through pyroelectricity are presented. Specifically, the authors investigate the …

Non-planar dielectrics derived thermal and electrostatic field inhomogeneity for boosted weather-adaptive energy harvesting

Y Zhou, T Ding, Y Cheng, Y Huang… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Weather-adaptive energy harvesting of omnipresent waste heat and rain droplets, though
promising in the field of environmental energy sustainability, is still far from practice due to its …

Triangular pyramid nanostructure enhanced photothermal utilization of noble metal nanoparticles

X Chen, C Qin, L Yang, X Li, X Wu, B Zhang - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The triangular pyramid nanostructure (TPN) raises a perfect prerequisite for the aggregation
of surface plasmon resonances (SPRs). However, the application of TPN in …