Nanogenerators with superwetting surfaces for harvesting water/liquid energy

Y Wang, S Gao, W Xu, Z Wang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Water covers about 70% of the earth's surface and contains tremendous energy that remains
untapped. Despite success in harvesting hydrodynamic energy based on heavy‐weight and …

Water droplet‐based nanogenerators

MAM Hasan, T Zhang, H Wu… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water is one of the most sustainable resources in the world, offering an abundance of hydro
energy. Getting a large amount of electricity through conventional water energy harvesting is …

Constant electricity generation in nanostructured silicon by evaporation‐driven water flow

Y Qin, Y Wang, X Sun, Y Li, H Xu, Y Tan… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, hydrovoltaic technology emerged as a novel renewable energy harvesting
method, which dramatically extends the capability to harvest water energy. However, the …

Emerging materials for water-enabled electricity generation

Y Huang, H Cheng, L Qu - ACS Materials Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Water is one of the most abundant natural resources on Earth, which has attracted huge
research interest in the field of energy harvesting and conversion, because of its …

Exploring interface confined water flow and evaporation enables solar-thermal-electro integration towards clean water and electricity harvest via asymmetric …

P **ao, J He, F Ni, C Zhang, Y Liang, W Zhou, J Gu… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Water evaporation is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature. To fully explore the solar-enabled
water evaporation can effectively alleviate the growing concern of shortage of water and …

Dynamics for droplet-based electricity generators

X Wang, S Fang, J Tan, T Hu, W Chu, J Yin, J Zhou… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The finding of power generation from droplets (Yin et al., 2014)[1], based on the moving
boundary of electrical double layer, has triggered great research enthusiasm, and a …

Electricity generation from the interaction of liquid–solid interface: a review

K Wang, J Li - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Harvesting energy from water is an environmentally friendly way to ease the energy crisis,
since water covers about 70% of the Earth. However, traditional hydraulic generators need …

Slide electrification: charging of surfaces by moving water drops

AZ Stetten, DS Golovko, SAL Weber, HJ Butt - Soft matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate the charge separation caused by the motion of a water drop across a
hydrophobic, insulating solid surface. Although the phenomenon of liquid charging has …

Ionovoltaics in energy harvesting and applications: A journey from early development to current state‐of‐the‐art

WH Lee, J Park, SG Yoon, H **, J Han, YS Kim - EcoMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ionovoltaics is a breakthrough concept in energy conversion that harnesses water motion
with ion dynamics to generate electrical energy. This phenomenon is based on the …

Identification of water-infiltration-induced electrical energy generation by ionovoltaic effect in porous CuO nanowire films

H **, SG Yoon, WH Lee, YH Cho, J Han… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We verified the origin of water-infiltration-induced electricity generation by an ionovoltaic
effect, specifically, ion–surface interaction induced potential asymmetry in porous structures …