• 文献标题:   Harvesting Energy from Water Flow over Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DHIMAN P, YAVARI F, MI X, GULLAPALLI H, SHI YF, AJAYAN PM, KORATKAR N
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, energy harvesting, water flow, surface ion hopping
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Rensselaer Polytech Inst
  • 被引频次:   116
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl2011559
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Water flow over carbon nanotubes has been shown to generate an induced voltage in the flow direction due to coupling of ions present in water with free charge carriers in the nanotubes. However, the induced voltages are typically of the order of a few millivolts, too small for significant power generation. Here we perform tests involving water flow with various molarities of hydrochloric acid (HCl) over few-layered graphene and report order of magnitude higher induced voltages for graphene as compared to nanotubes. The power generated by the flow of similar to 0.6 M HCl solution at similar to 0.01 m/sec was measured to be similar to 85 nW for a similar to 30 x 16 mu m size graphene film, which equates to a power per unit area of similar to 175 W/m(2). Molecular dynamics simulations indicate that the power generation is primarily caused by a net drift velocity of adsorbed Cl- ions on the continuous graphene film surface.