• 文献标题:   Printed Honeycomb-Structured Reduced Graphene Oxide Film for Efficient and Continuous Evaporation-Driven Electricity Generation from Salt Solution
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WU M, PENG MW, LIANG ZQ, LIU YL, ZHAO B, LI D, WANG YW, ZHANG JC, SUN YH, JIANG L
  • 作者关键词:   evaporationinduced electricity generation, 3d printed rgo film, salt solution, microchannel, electric double layer edl
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED MATERIALS INTERFACES
  • ISSN:   1944-8244 EI 1944-8252
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  • 被引频次:   19
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsami.1c04508 EA JUN 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Water-evaporation-induced electricity generation provides an ideal strategy to solve growing energy demand and supply power for self-powered systems because of its advantages of a highly spontaneous process, continuous power generation, and low cost. However, the reported evaporation-induced generators are limited to working only in deionized (DI) water, leading to a low output power. Herein, we utilize a modified multiple ion mode to demonstrate that the streaming potential can be optimized in microchannels filled with salt solution and achieve an enhanced evaporation-induced output power in salt solution by a generator based on honeycomb-structured reduced graphene oxide (rGO) film with abundant interconnected microchannels. This generator enables an around 2-fold open-circuit voltage (V-oc) and a 3.3-fold power density of 0.91 mu W cm(-2) in 0.6 M NaCl solution compared to that in DI water. Experiments evidence that the honeycomb structure with abundant interconnected microchannels plays a key role in achieving high and stable output power in salt solution because of its large specific surface area and excellent ion-exchange capacity. Notably, it can work at all times of day and night for more than 240 h in natural seawater, delivering a stable V-oc of similar to 0.83 V with a power density of 0.79 mu W cm(-2). This study expands a working solution for water-evaporation-induced electricity generation from DI water to natural seawater, advancing a great step toward practical applications.