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Rational design of natural leather-based water evaporator for electricity generation and functional applications

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In recent years,water evaporation-induced electricity has attracted a great deal of attention as an emerg-ing green and renewable energy harvesting technology.Although abundant materials have been devel-oped to fabricate hydrovoltaic devices,the limitations of high costs,inconvenient storage and transport,low environmental benefits,and unadaptable shape have restricted their wide applications.Here,an electricity generator driven by water evaporation has been engineered based on natural biomass leather with inherent properties of good moisture permeability,excellent wettability,physicochemical stability,flexibility,and biocompatibility.Including numerous nano/microchannels together with rich oxygen-bearing functional groups,the natural leather-based water evaporator,LeatherEmblic-NPs-SA/CB,could continuously produce electricity even staying outside,achieving a maximum output voltage of~3 V with six-series connection.Furthermore,the leather-based water evaporator has enormous poten-tial for use as a flexible self-powered electronic floor and seawater demineralizer due to its sensitive pres-sure sensing ability as well as its excellent photothermal conversion efficiency(96.3%)and thus fast water evaporation rate(2.65 kg m-2 h-1).This work offers a new and functional material for the con-struction of hydrovoltaic devices to harvest the sustained green energy from water evaporation in arbi-trary ambient environments,which shows great promise in their widespread applications.

Energy conversionWater evaporation-induced electricityFunctional leatherFlexible self-powered sensorDesalination

Bingyuan Zhang、Xiaoyu Guan、Qingxin Han、Haoxiang Guo、Sai Zheng、Xuhui Sun、Afnan H.El-Gowily、Mohammed A.Abosheasha、Yanxia Zhu、Motoki Ueda、Meng An、Haojun Fan、Yoshihiro Ito

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College of Bioresources Chemical and Materials Engineering,Key Laboratory of Auxiliary Chemistry and Technology for Chemical Industry,Ministry of Education,Shaanxi Collaborative Innovation Center of Industrial Auxiliary Chemistry and Technology,Shaanxi University of Science & Technology,Xi'an 710021,Shaanxi,China

Nano Medical Engineering Laboratory,RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research,2-1 Hirosawa,Wako 351-0198,Saitama,Japan

Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering(Sichuan University),Ministry o

College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering,Shaanxi University of Science & Technology,Xi'an 710021,Shaanxi,China

Biochemistry Division,Chemistry Department,Faculty of Science,Tanta University,Tanta 31527,Egypt

Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering(Sichuan University),Ministry of Education,Chengdu 610065,Sichuan,China

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National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaScientific Research Program Funded by Shaanxi Provincial Education DepartmentOpen Foundation of Key Laboratory of Auxiliary Chemistry and Technology for Chemical Industry,Ministry of EducationShaanxi Collaborative Innovation Center of Industrial Auxiliary Chemistry and Technology,Shaanxi University of Science and TechnOpening Project of Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering(Sichuan University)Ministry of Education(2022)RIKEN-MOST Project between the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China(MOST),RIKENChina Scholarship CouncilNatural Science Foundation of Shaanxi University of Science & Technology

2230821023JK0350KFKT2021-122021086101272019BT-44

2024

能源化学
中国科学院大连化学物理研究所 中国科学院成都有机化学研究所

能源化学

CSTPCDEI
影响因子:0.654
ISSN:2095-4956
年,卷(期):2024.96(9)