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 …

Moisture‐enabled electricity generation: from physics and materials to self‐powered applications

D Shen, WW Duley, P Peng, M Xiao, J Feng… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The exploration of the utilization of sustainable, green energy represents one way in which it
is possible to ameliorate the growing threat of the global environmental issues and the crisis …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Ionic hydrogel for efficient and scalable moisture‐electric generation

S Yang, X Tao, W Chen, J Mao, H Luo, S Lin… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The progress of spontaneous energy generation from ubiquitous moisture is hindered the
low output current and intermittent operating voltage of the moisture‐electric generators …

Nature‐Inspired Solar‐Thermal Gradient Reduced Graphene Oxide Aerogel‐based Bilayer Phase Change Composites for Self‐Adaptive Personal Thermal …

Z Luo, D Yang, J Liu, HY Zhao, T Zhao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although personal thermal management (PTM) materials for daily routine environments are
widely investigated, the exploration of multifunctional PTM materials with excellent feasibility …

Capacitor-inspired high-performance and durable moist-electric generator

Z Sun, X Wen, L Wang, J Yu, X Qin - Energy & Environmental Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Harvesting clean and sustainable energy from moisture has emerged as a promising
technology to break the paradigm of traditional energy generation by utilizing fossil fuels …