ArticleNature communications2025
Moisture-based green energy harvesting over 600 hours via photocatalysis-enhanced hydrovoltaic effect.
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- Oxygen-Synergized All-Fiber Hydrovoltaics With Milliamp Output Toward Self-Powered Breathable Electronics.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Moisture-driven, self-powered noncontact sensing interfaces via turbulence-tailored hygroelectronic effect.Science advances · 2026Article
- Recent Advances in Moisture-Electric Nanogenerators: From Moisture-Enabled Electrification to Practical Applications.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Review
- Humidity-induced dynamic coordination drives the oscillatory migration of ions for sustainable energy harvesting.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Harnessing the Power from Ambient Moisture with Hygroscopic Materials.Nano-micro letters · 2026Review
- Intrinsic asymmetric iontronic-interfaces for giant power generation.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Fluorinated Polymers for Hydrovoltaic Energy Harvesting: Mechanisms and Multifunctional Integration.ACS polymers Au · 2025Review
- Advances in Hygroscopic Polymer Gels toward Efficient Atmospheric Moisture Capture and Management.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Milliwatt-Scale Moisture-Induced Power Generation via Cation Intercalation in Sodium Vanadium Oxide Nanobelts.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Gel-Based Ionic Circuits.Chemical reviews · 2025Review
- Leaves for high power density hydrovoltaic generators.iScience · 2025Article
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Abstract
Harvesting the energy from the interaction between hygroscopic materials and atmospheric water can generate green and clean energy. However, the ion diffusion process of moisture-induced dissociation leads to the disappearance of the ion concentration gradient gradually, and there is still a lack of moisture-based power generation devices with truly continuous operation, especially the duration of the current output still needs to be extended. Here, we propose a design for reconstructing the ion concentration gradient by coupling photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction with hydrovoltaic effect, to report a moisture-enabled electric generator (MEG) with continuous current output. We show that the introduction of the photocatalytic layer not only absorbs light energy to greatly increase the power generation of the MEG (500% power density enhancement), but more importantly, the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution process consumes the pre-stacked ions to restore the ion concentration gradient, allowing the MEG to continuously output current for more than 600 hours, which is 1 to 2 orders of magnitude higher than the great majority of existed MEGs in terms of the current output duration.
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