Sepiolite-Based Nanogenerator Driven by Water Evaporation.

Liwei Zhao, Guoxing Jiang, Xing Zhang, Chunchang Wang

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Nanoelectronics: Materials, Devices, and Applications (Second Edition).Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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Liwei ZhaoLaboratory of Dielectric Functional Materials, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.

Guoxing JiangLaboratory of Dielectric Functional Materials, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.

Xing ZhangLaboratory of Dielectric Functional Materials, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.

Chunchang WangLaboratory of Dielectric Functional Materials, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2349-1098

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 12174001 and 51872001

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Abstract

This work introduces a new type of water evaporation-driven nanogenerator (S-WEG) utilizing the natural mineral sepiolite, which capitalizes on its hierarchical nanoporous architecture and intrinsic hydrophilicity to harvest energy from ambient humidity through capillary-driven evaporation. The S-WEG, fabricated via a facile drop-coating drying method, demonstrates remarkable mechanical flexibility and sustained operational reliability. Our results demonstrate that by optimizing evaporation height and width, the S-WEG can generate a short-circuit current of ~0.6 μA and an open-circuit voltage of ~0.9 V. Through series and parallel configurations of multiple S-WEG units, the current and voltage outputs can be effectively amplified to power small-scale electronics.

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electricity generationenergy harvestingevaporationhydrovoltaic effectsepiolite

Identifiers

PMID40648690

DOI10.3390/nano15130983

PMCPMC12251164

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