Membrane-free battery for harvesting low-grade thermal energy

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6578-6583

  Yang, Yuan ^a   Loomis, James ^a   Ghasemi, Hadi ^a   Lee, Seok Woo ^b   Wang, Yi Jenny ^a   Cui, Yi ^b,c   Chen, Gang ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

battery; electrochemical systems; low grade thermal energy; membrane free; thermally regenerative electrochemical cycle; TREC

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; MEMBRANES; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WASTE HEAT;

BATTERY; ELECTROCHEMICAL CYCLE; ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS; MEMBRANE-FREE; TREC;

TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84909998733     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl5032106     Document Type: Article

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