Unconventional thermoelectric materials for energy harvesting and sensing applications

M Massetti, F Jiao, AJ Ferguson, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Heat is an abundant but often wasted source of energy. Thus, harvesting just a portion of this
tremendous amount of energy holds significant promise for a more sustainable society …

Thermo-electrochemical cells for waste heat harvesting–progress and perspectives

MF Dupont, DR MacFarlane, JM Pringle - Chemical communications, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermo-electrochemical cells (also called thermocells) are promising devices for harvesting
waste heat for the sustainable production of energy. Research into thermocells has …

Giant thermopower of ionic gelatin near room temperature

CG Han, X Qian, Q Li, B Deng, Y Zhu, Z Han, W Zhang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Harvesting heat from the environment into electricity has the potential to power Internet-of-
things (IoT) sensors, freeing them from cables or batteries and thus making them especially …

Ionic liquids for energy, materials, and medicine

M Smiglak, JM Pringle, X Lu, L Han, S Zhang… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
As highlighted by the recent ChemComm web themed issue on ionic liquids, this field
continues to develop beyond the concept of interesting new solvents for application in the …

Stretchable and freeze‐tolerant organohydrogel thermocells with enhanced thermoelectric performance continually working at subzero temperatures

W Gao, Z Lei, C Zhang, X Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous thermocells that are eco‐friendly and capable of converting low‐grade heat into
electricity continuously are promising candidates to power flexible and wearable devices in …

Potentially wearable thermo‐electrochemical cells for body heat harvesting: From mechanism, materials, strategies to applications

Y Liu, H Wang, PC Sherrell, L Liu, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wearable electronics are becoming one of the key technologies in health care applications
including health monitoring, data acquisitions, and real‐time diagnosis. The …

Recent progress on integrated energy conversion and storage systems

B Luo, D Ye, L Wang - Advanced Science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last few decades, there has been increasing interest in the design and construction
of integrated energy conversion and storage systems (IECSSs) that can simultaneously …

Thermodynamics of Ionic Thermoelectrics for Low-Grade Heat Harvesting

X Qian, Z Ma, Q Huang, H Jiang, R Yang - ACS Energy Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
More than half of the waste heat rejected into the environment has temperatures lower than
100° C, which accounts for nearly 85 PWh/year worldwide. Efficiently harvesting low-grade …

High-efficiency thermocells driven by thermo-electrochemical processes

M Li, M Hong, M Dargusch, J Zou, ZG Chen - Trends in Chemistry, 2021 - cell.com
Thermocells (also called thermo-electrochemical cells) are a promising technology for
converting low-grade heat (< 200° C) into electricity through temperature-dependent redox …

Progress and prospects for low-grade heat recovery electrochemical technologies

D Huo, H Tian, G Shu, W Wang - Sustainable Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The low-grade heat is ubiquitous and widely distributed. Due to the lack of efficient recovery
methods, the low-grade heat is directly discharged into the environment, causing energy …