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 …

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 …

Water Skin Effect and Arched Double‐Sided Evaporation for Boosting All‐Weather High Salinity Desalination

C Wang, K Xu, G Shi, D Wei - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
High efficiency, long‐term salt rejection, and continuous operation under all‐weather
conditions have always been the goals of solar‐driven desalination of high salinity brine …

Pursuing the tribovoltaic effect for direct-current triboelectric nanogenerators

C Xu, J Yu, Z Huo, Y Wang, Q Sun… - Energy & Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The shortage of fossil energy and global climate change have driven humankind to find a
new type of renewable, accessible, and clean energy. The triboelectric nanogenerator …

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 …

Bilayer of polyelectrolyte films for spontaneous power generation in air up to an integrated 1,000 V output

H Wang, Y Sun, T He, Y Huang, H Cheng, C Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Environmentally adaptive power generation is attractive for the development of next-
generation energy sources. Here we develop a heterogeneous moisture-enabled electric …

Hybrid solar-driven interfacial evaporation systems: Beyond water production towards high solar energy utilization

T Ding, Y Zhou, WL Ong, GW Ho - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Owing to its promising approach to tackling freshwater scarcity, solar-driven interfacial
evaporation (SDIE) which confines the photothermal heat at evaporating surface has …

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 …

Achieving efficient power generation by designing bioinspired and multi-layered interfacial evaporator

Z Sun, C Han, S Gao, Z Li, M Jing, H Yu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Water evaporation is a natural phase change phenomenon occurring any time and
everywhere. Enormous efforts have been made to harvest energy from this ubiquitous …

Power generation from ambient humidity using protein nanowires

X Liu, H Gao, JE Ward, X Liu, B Yin, T Fu, J Chen… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Harvesting energy from the environment offers the promise of clean power for self-sustained
systems,. Known technologies—such as solar cells, thermoelectric devices and mechanical …