Advances in the design and assembly of flexible thermoelectric device

T Cao, XL Shi, ZG Chen - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Owing to their capabilities of solid-state conversion between heat and electricity, zero-
emission, and high flexibility, flexible thermoelectric devices (F-TEDs) have exhibited great …

Flexible self-charging power sources

R Liu, ZL Wang, K Fukuda, T Someya - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Power supply is one of the bottlenecks to realizing untethered wearable electronics, soft
robotics and the internet of things. Flexible self-charging power sources integrate energy …

Developing fibrillated cellulose as a sustainable technological material

T Li, C Chen, AH Brozena, JY Zhu, L Xu, C Driemeier… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, found in trees, waste from agricultural
crops and other biomass. The fibres that comprise cellulose can be broken down into …

Unconventional thermoelectric materials for energy harvesting and sensing applications

M Massetti, F Jiao, AJ Ferguson, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Heat is an abundant but often wasted source of energy. Thus, harvesting just a portion of this
tremendous amount of energy holds significant promise for a more sustainable society …

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 …

Cellulose-based ionic conductor: An emerging material toward sustainable devices

Y Ye, L Yu, E Lizundia, Y Zhu, C Chen… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ionic conductors (ICs) find widespread applications across different fields, such as smart
electronic, ionotronic, sensor, biomedical, and energy harvesting/storage devices, and …

Inspired by wood: thick electrodes for supercapacitors

F Wang, J Lee, L Chen, G Zhang, S He, J Han, J Ahn… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The emergence and development of thick electrodes provide an efficient way for the high-
energy-density supercapacitor design. Wood is a kind of biomass material with porous …

Advances in ionic thermoelectrics: from materials to devices

S Sun, M Li, XL Shi, ZG Chen - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As an extended member of the thermoelectric family, ionic thermoelectrics (i‐TEs) exhibit
exceptional Seebeck coefficients and applicable power factors, and as a result have …

Highly stable, antiviral, antibacterial cotton textiles via molecular engineering

J Qian, Q Dong, K Chun, D Zhu, X Zhang, Y Mao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cotton textiles are ubiquitous in daily life and are also one of the primary mediums for
transmitting viruses and bacteria. Conventional approaches to fabricating antiviral and …

Structure–property–function relationships of natural and engineered wood

C Chen, Y Kuang, S Zhu, I Burgert, T Keplinger… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The complex structure of wood, one of the most abundant biomaterials on Earth, has been
optimized over 270 million years of tree evolution. This optimization has led to the highly …