Water is a colossal reservoir of clean energy as it adsorbs thirty-five percent of solar energy
reaching the Earth's surface. More than half of the adsorbed energy turns into latent heat for …

Solar-driven water evaporation system has attracted enormous attention in recent years.
This is due to the widespread use of natural sources such as solar energy and water …

Extensive efforts have been made to harvest energy from water in the form of raindrops,,,,–,
river and ocean waves,, tides and others,,,,,,–. However, achieving a high density of …

Breakthroughs in high-efficiency droplet energy harvesters have been achieved by taking
advantage of the transistor-inspired bulk effect; however, strategies toward large-scale …

Water contains tremendous energy in a variety of forms, but very little of this energy has yet
been harnessed. Nanostructured materials can generate electricity on interaction with water …

Droplet manipulation techniques such as transport and merging have been widely used in
many fields including biology, chemistry, material and energy applications. Moreover …

Harvesting energy from spontaneous water flow within artificial nanochannels is a promising
route to meet sustainable power requirements of the fast-growing human society. However …

The depletion of fossil fuels and the corresponding environmental concerns require the
development of new kinds of green energy. We herein present a new type of highly efficient …

An efficient moisture-electric-energy transformation is discovered by means of establishing
an oxygen functional group gradient in a graphene oxide film. The moisture variation serves …

Water evaporation-induced electricity generation technology has become an extremely
interesting issue recently for supplying both freshwater and electricity. This review …