Harvesting waste thermal energy using a carbon-nanotube-based thermo-electrochemical cell

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 838-846

  Hu, Renchong ^a   Cola, Baratunde A ^c   Haram, Nanda ^d   Barisci, Joseph N ^a   Lee, Sergey ^a,f   Stoughton, Stephanie ^a   Wallace, Gordon ^e   Too, Chee ^e   Thomas, Michael ^e   Gestos, Adrian ^e   Dela Cruz, Marilou E ^b   Ferraris, John P ^a,b   Zakhidov, Anvar A ^a   Baughman, Ray H ^a,b,f  

^a Alan G MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Maharashtra Institute of Pharmacy   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^f Plextronics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Low grade waste heat; Thermal energy harvesting; Thermo electrochemical cells; Thermocells; Thermogalvanic cells

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTRODES; ENERGY HARVESTING; NANOTUBES; THERMAL ENERGY; WASTE HEAT; YARN;

ACCESSIBLE SURFACE AREAS; ELECTRODE MATERIAL; LOW-GRADE WASTE HEAT; MEDIATED ELECTRON TRANSFER; MULTI-WALLED NANOTUBES; THERMO-ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; THERMOCELLS; THERMOGALVANIC CELLS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HEAT; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 77953648349     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl903267n     Document Type: Article

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