Technology roadmap for flexible sensors

Y Luo, MR Abidian, JH Ahn, D Akinwande… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Humans rely increasingly on sensors to address grand challenges and to improve quality of
life in the era of digitalization and big data. For ubiquitous sensing, flexible sensors are …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Multifunctional flexible humidity sensor systems towards noncontact wearable electronics

Y Lu, G Yang, Y Shen, H Yang, K Xu - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
In the past decade, the global industry and research attentions on intelligent skin-like
electronics have boosted their applications in diverse fields including human healthcare …

[HTML][HTML] Moisture adsorption-desorption full cycle power generation

H Wang, T He, X Hao, Y Huang, H Yao, F Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Environment-adaptive power generation can play an important role in next-generation
energy conversion. Herein, we propose a moisture adsorption-desorption power generator …

Moisture‐enabled electricity from hygroscopic materials: a new type of clean energy

T Xu, X Ding, H Cheng, G Han, L Qu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Water utilization is accompanied with the development of human beings, whereas gaseous
moisture is usually regarded as an underexploited resource. The advances of highly efficient …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial biofilms for electricity generation from water evaporation and power to wearables

X Liu, T Ueki, H Gao, TL Woodard, KP Nevin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Employing renewable materials for fabricating clean energy harvesting devices can further
improve sustainability. Microorganisms can be mass produced with renewable feedstocks …

Going beyond efficiency for solar evaporation

N Xu, J Li, C Finnerty, Y Song, L Zhou, B Zhu, P Wang… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Interfacial solar evaporation, which captures solar energy and localizes the generated heat
for evaporating water molecules, is regarded as an important emerging strategy for solar …

Surface wettability for skin‐interfaced sensors and devices

X Wang, Y Liu, H Cheng… - Advanced functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The practical applications of skin‐interfaced sensors and devices in daily life hinge on the
rational design of surface wettability to maintain device integrity and achieve improved …

Electricity generation from phase transitions between liquid and gaseous water

B Shao, Y Song, Z Song, Y Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ubiquitous and spontaneous phase transitions between liquid and gaseous water
contain substantial energy that can be harvested by emerging hydrovoltaic technologies …

An asymmetric hygroscopic structure for moisture‐driven hygro‐ionic electricity generation and storage

Y Zhang, S Guo, ZG Yu, H Qu, W Sun… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The interactions between moisture and materials give rise to the possibility of moisture‐
driven energy generation (MEG). Current MEG materials and devices only establish this …