Generating electricity by moving a droplet of ionic liquid along graphene

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 378-383

  Yin, Jun ^a   Li, Xuemei ^a   Yu, Jin ^a   Zhang, Zhuhua ^a   Zhou, Jianxin ^a   Guo, Wanlin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DROPS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY HARVESTING; GRAPHENE; IONIC LIQUIDS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEAWATER; YARN;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ELECTROKINETIC PHENOMENA; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; FLOWING LIQUID; GRAPHENE LAYERS; IONIC SOLUTIONS; IONIC SPECIES; MOVING DROPLETS;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHENE; IONIC LIQUID;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTACT ANGLE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NANODEVICE; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84901252330     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.56     Document Type: Article

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