Charging-free electrochemical system for harvesting low-grade thermal energy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 48, 2014, Pages 17011-17016

  Yang, Yuan ^a   Lee, Seok Woo ^b   Ghasemi, Hadi ^a,d   Loomis, James ^a   Li, Xiaobo ^a   Kraemer, Daniel ^a   Zheng, Guangyuan ^b   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)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Batteries; Nanomaterials; Prussian blue analog; Waste heat harvesting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914132428     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415097111     Document Type: Article

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