A5072076731- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
- Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
- Laser Material Processing Techniques
- Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
- Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies
- Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
- Radioactive element chemistry and processing
- Membrane Separation Technologies
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma
- Catalysts for Methane Reforming
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
- Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
- Concrete Corrosion and Durability
- Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Non-Destructive Testing Techniques
- Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies
- Chemical Synthesis and Characterization
- Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Inner Mongolia Agricultural University
2024
City University of Hong Kong
2000-2024
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2023-2024
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
2016-2024
Chengdu University of Technology
2020-2024
Fujian Normal University
2023-2024
Shandong Jianzhu University
2024
Central South University
2016-2023
Jilin Medical University
2023
Jilin University
2023
By leveraging tannic-acid-enabled dynamic interactions, we designed an ionic hydrogel with boosted bulk and interfacial properties such as ultra-stretchability, remarkable self-healing capability robust adhesion.
Manipulating liquid is of great significance in fields from life sciences to industrial applications. Owing its advantages manipulating liquids with high precision and flexibility, electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) has been widely used various Despite this, efficient operation generally needs electrode arrays sophisticated circuit control. Here, we develop a largely unexplored triboelectric wetting (TEW) phenomenon that can directly exploit the charges achieve programmed precise water...
Abstract The past several years have witnessed the rapid development in effectively transforming randomly distributed water kinetic energy into electrical energy, especially triggered by emergence of droplet‐based electricity generators (DEG). Despite this, it still suffers from relatively low average power density, which is also achieved at cost long charging time, time to reach stable and saturated surface charge density either through continuous droplet impingement or precharging....
Abstract Harvesting renewable water energy in various formats such as raindrops, waves, and evaporation is one of the key strategies for achieving global carbon neutrality. The recent decade has witnessed rapid advancement droplet‐based electricity generator (DEG) with a continuous leap instantaneous output power density from 50 W/m 2 to several kW/m . Despite this, further pushing upper limit performance DEG still constrained by low surface charge long precharging time. Here, we report...
Abstract Harvesting energy from water, in the form of raindrops, river, and ocean waves, is considerable importance has potential applications self‐powered electronic devices large‐scale needs. Recently, droplet‐based electricity generator shown an increase by several orders magnitude electrical output, overcoming drawback traditional device limited interfacial effects. Despite this exciting result, output performance novel relatively low frequency impinging droplets owing to formation a...
Bubbles have been extensively explored as energy carriers ranging from boiling heat transfer and targeted cancer diagnosis. Yet, despite notable progress, the kinetic inherent in small bubbles remains difficult to harvest. Here, we develop a transistor-inspired bubble generator for directly efficiently harvesting bubbles. The key points lie designing dielectric surface with high-density electric charges tailored wettability well electrode configuration. synergy between these features...
Abstract Developing robust technologies to harvest energy from ambient environments is critical applications in self‐powered electronics. As a promising candidate, droplet‐based electricity generators with transistor‐inspired architecture, which consist of electrodes and dielectric material, have manifested superior capacity gain sustainable water. Despite extensive achievement, these devices are significantly limited by insufficient flexibility unstable performance owing the presence...
Abstract Harnessing ambient renewable mechanical energies for achieving carbon‐neutrality demands the rational design of materials and architectures which are favorable both energy collection conversion simultaneously. However, direct coupling modules leads to many unwanted problems such as material wearing, spatial constraint large‐scale integration, low efficiency. Herein, a remote‐controlled harvesting strategy that cleverly harnesses unique advantage diffusive, long‐range airflow within...
Abstract Achieving well-controlled directional steering of liquids is great significance for both fundamental study and practical applications, such as microfluidics, biomedicine, heat management. Recent advances allow with different surface tensions to select their spreading directions on a same composed macro ratchets dual reentrant curvatures. Nevertheless, intriguing function relies 3D printed sophisticated structures additional polishing process eliminate the inevitable...
Just as the innovation of electronic diodes that allow current to flow in one direction provides a foundation for development digital technologies, engineering surfaces or devices directional and spontaneous transport fluids, termed liquid diodes, is highly desired wide spectrum applications ranging from medical microfluidics, advanced printing, heat management water collection oil-water separation. Recent advances manufacturing, visualization techniques, biomimetics have led exciting...
Zn–Al layered double hydroxides (Zn–Al LDHs) with various reaction times were synthesized by a hydrothermal method at constant pH, and they tested for the removal of RhB or without post-calcination treatment.
Extensive work have been done to harvest untapped water energy in formats of raindrops, flows, waves, and others. However, attaining stable efficient electricity generation from these low-frequency kinetic energies at both individual device large-scale system level remains challenging, partially owing the difficulty designing a unit that possesses liquid charge transfer properties, also can be seamlessly integrated achieve preferential collective performances without introduction tortuous...
Body heat, a clean and ubiquitous energy source, is promising as renewable resource to supply wearable electronics. Emerging tough thermogalvanic device could be sustainable platform convert body heat into electricity for powering electronics if its Carnot-relative efficiency (η
Abstract Electrohydrodynamic and hydroelectric effects at the water–solid interface are of fundamental importance also underpin many important applications ranging from controlled liquid transport by applying an external electric field to power generation moving liquid. Also, recent advances in micro/nanofabrication nanomaterials provide additional dimension flexibility controlling electrohydrodynamic achieve preferred functions. Despite extensive progress, cohesive unified review these two...