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ArticleChemical science2018

A miniaturized solid salt reverse electrodialysis battery: a durable and fully ionic power source.

Song Yi Yeon, Jeongse Yun, Sun-Heui Yoon, Dahye Lee, Woohyuk Jang, Seok Hee Han, Chung Mu Kang, Taek Dong Chung

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Article in Chemical science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Biopolymer Membranes for Osmotic Power Generation in Bionic Applications.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  3. Miniaturized Salinity Gradient Energy Harvesting Devices.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Song Yi YeonDepartment of Chemistry , Seoul National University , Seoul , 08826 , Republic of Korea . Email: tdchung@snu.ac.kr.
Jeongse YunDepartment of Chemistry , Seoul National University , Seoul , 08826 , Republic of Korea . Email: tdchung@snu.ac.kr.
Sun-Heui YoonDepartment of Chemistry , Seoul National University , Seoul , 08826 , Republic of Korea . Email: tdchung@snu.ac.kr.
Dahye LeeDepartment of Chemistry , Seoul National University , Seoul , 08826 , Republic of Korea . Email: tdchung@snu.ac.kr.
Woohyuk JangDepartment of Chemistry , Seoul National University , Seoul , 08826 , Republic of Korea . Email: tdchung@snu.ac.kr.
Seok Hee HanDepartment of Chemistry , Seoul National University , Seoul , 08826 , Republic of Korea . Email: tdchung@snu.ac.kr.
Chung Mu KangAdvanced Institute of Convergence Technology , Suwon-si , Gyeonggi-do 16229 , Republic of Korea.
Taek Dong ChungDepartment of Chemistry , Seoul National University , Seoul , 08826 , Republic of Korea . Email: tdchung@snu.ac.kr.ORCID 0000-0003-1092-8550
Seoul National University · KRGovernment of the Republic of Korea · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A novel pump-free miniaturized reverse electrodialysis (RED) system was designed to provide lasting power transduced from salinity gradients, named solid salt RED (ssRED), and this quasi-battery uses a solid salt instead of electrolyte solution for streamlined usage. It is portable, flexible, comparable in size to a universal serial bus flash drive, and easily activated with a small amount of water. It maintains a constant ionic concentration gradient through precipitation reactions between a pair of different salts. This precipitation-assisted solid salt RED (PssRED) is an unprecedented ionic power source as it can generate steady electricity in the absence of a driving pump. The PssRED was successfully coupled with bipolar electrode (BPE) microchip sensors which require stable ionic electricity and a polyelectrolyte ionic diode to realize a fully ionic circuit. It is envisioned that the range of application could be expanded to supply electromotive force to various devices through an ionic charge flow.

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PMID30542555
PMCPMC6238720
OpenAlexW2888948404

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