High-efficiency ballistic electrostatic generator using microdroplets

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xie, Yanbo ^a   Bos, Diederik ^a   De Vreede, Lennart J ^a   De Boer, Hans L ^a   Van Der Meulen, Mark Jan ^a   Versluis, Michel ^a   Sprenkels, Ad J ^a   Van Den Berg, Albert ^a   Eijkel, Jan C T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON NITRIDE; WATER;

COST ANALYSIS; DROPLET; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL POWER; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; KINETIC ENERGY; MACHINERY; PORE SPACE; PUMPING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WATER FLOW;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; DECELERATION; DENSITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ENERGY CONVERSION; FLOW RATE; GENERATOR; RENEWABLE ENERGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STEADY STATE; SURFACE TENSION; VELOCITY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 84907662971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4575     Document Type: Article

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