Ion-engine hydrogel based solar desalination for water-electricity cogeneration with milliampere level current

Yu Chen, Chengwei Ye, Jiajun He, Liangti Qu () and Shaochun Tang ()
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Yu Chen: Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Chengwei Ye: Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Jiajun He: Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Liangti Qu: Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry
Shaochun Tang: Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Nature Communications, 2025, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Abstract Seawater evaporation-induced electricity generation (SEG) holds potential in alleviating global energy and freshwater demands. However, conventional SEGs suffer from non-selective ion transport in seawater, leading to severe Debye screening effect and low output current (

Date: 2025
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