• 文献标题:   Flexible and portable graphene on carbon cloth as a power generator for electricity generation
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HOU BF, KONG DN, QIAN JW, YU Y, CUI ZQ, LIU XH, WANG JY, MEI T, LI JH, WANG XB
  • 作者关键词:   electricity generation, water evaporation, solar desalination, environmental energy
  • 出版物名称:   CARBON
  • ISSN:   0008-6223 EI 1873-3891
  • 通讯作者地址:   Hubei Univ
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.carbon.2018.09.005
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Utilizing flexible and portable device to generate electricity via a natural process has aroused extensive and intensive interest. Herein, a low-cost graphene/carbon cloth (G/CC) is prepared to generate electricity induced by water evaporation that is driven from solar photothermal conversion. The G/CC device can constantly generate electricity approximately up to 0.37 V in 0.5 M NaCl solution through solar-driven water evaporation. High photothermal efficiency up to 83% is achieved when the device is applied to inorganic salt solutions or organic solvents under solar illumination with a power density of 1 kW m(-2). This work provides a simple method that can convert the environmental energy into electricity, and develops a new energy harvester as a green power supply system that is feasible in a use of water evaporation, pollutant treatment and medicine disinfection. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.