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 …

Liquid-state thermocells: Opportunities and challenges for low-grade heat harvesting

J Duan, B Yu, L Huang, B Hu, M Xu, G Feng, J Zhou - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Low-grade heat (< 100° C) is abundant and ubiquitous but is generally discarded
owing to a lack of cost-effective recovery technologies. Emerging liquid-state thermocells …

Giant thermopower of ionic gelatin near room temperature

CG Han, X Qian, Q Li, B Deng, Y Zhu, Z Han, W Zhang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Harvesting heat from the environment into electricity has the potential to power Internet-of-
things (IoT) sensors, freeing them from cables or batteries and thus making them especially …

Double-network thermocells with extraordinary toughness and boosted power density for continuous heat harvesting

Z Lei, W Gao, P Wu - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Thermocells hold great potential for continually harvesting waste heat to power ubiquitous
electronics, but their integration is hampered by leakage risk and poor mechanical …

3D Hierarchical Electrodes Boosting Ultrahigh Power Output for Gelatin‐KCl‐FeCN4−/3− Ionic Thermoelectric Cells

Y Li, Q Li, X Zhang, B Deng, C Han… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ionic thermoelectric (i‐TE) cells, using ions as energy carriers, have the advantage of
achieving a high voltage of 1− 5 V at approximately ambient temperature, showing a …

Advanced wearable thermocells for body heat harvesting

Y Liu, S Zhang, Y Zhou, MA Buckingham… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectrochemical cells (thermocells) designed for harvesting human body heat can
provide constant power output for wearable electronics, supplementing state‐of‐the‐art …

Realizing record-high output power in flexible gelatin/GTA-KCl-FeCN 4−/3− ionic thermoelectric cells enabled by extending the working temperature range

Y Li, Q Li, X Zhang, J Zhang, S Wang, L Lai… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Quasi-solid-state ionic thermoelectric (i-TE) cells have attracted increasing interest due to
their high thermopower and easy solution processability for flexible and wearable …

Self-powered respiratory monitoring strategy based on adaptive dual-network thermogalvanic hydrogels

X Li, J Li, T Wang, SA Khan, Z Yuan… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
As a low-grade sustainable heat source, the breath waste heat exhaled by human bodies is
always ignored, although producing a greater temperature than ambient. Converting this …

Stretchable and freeze‐tolerant organohydrogel thermocells with enhanced thermoelectric performance continually working at subzero temperatures

W Gao, Z Lei, C Zhang, X Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous thermocells that are eco‐friendly and capable of converting low‐grade heat into
electricity continuously are promising candidates to power flexible and wearable devices in …

Potentially wearable thermo‐electrochemical cells for body heat harvesting: From mechanism, materials, strategies to applications

Y Liu, H Wang, PC Sherrell, L Liu, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wearable electronics are becoming one of the key technologies in health care applications
including health monitoring, data acquisitions, and real‐time diagnosis. The …