Water-evaporation-induced electricity with nanostructured carbon materials

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 317-321

  Xue, Guobin ^a   Xu, Ying ^b   Ding, Tianpeng ^a   Li, Jia ^a   Yin, Jun ^b   Fei, Wenwen ^b   Cao, Yuanzhi ^a   Yu, Jin ^b   Yuan, Longyan ^a   Gong, Li ^c   Chen, Jian ^c   Deng, Shaozhi ^c   Zhou, Jun ^a   Guo, Wanlin ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BLACK; ENERGY HARVESTING; EVAPORATION; FLOW OF WATER; GRAPHENE; MOLECULES; NANOSTRUCTURES; POROUS MATERIALS;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; GENERATE ELECTRICITY; NANOSTRUCTURED CARBON MATERIALS; STREAMING POTENTIAL; VOLTAGE GENERATIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

CARBON; CARBON BLACK; CARBON NANOPARTICLE; CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHENE; ION; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; EVAPORATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER EVAPORATION; WATER FLOW;

EID: 85011636035     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2016.300     Document Type: Article

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