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Vapor bubble induced electric current generation

  • Wenzhuo Li , Wanying Zhang , Lingye Zhou , Qingchen Shen , Modi Jiang , Benwei Fu , Peng Tao , Chengyi Song , Jianbo Wu , Tao Deng EMAIL logo and Wen Shang EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: May 27, 2021
Pure and Applied Chemistry
From the journal Pure and Applied Chemistry Volume 93 Issue 11

Abstract

Contact electrification (CE) has been utilized in various energy conversion systems in recent years. This work presents a constant electric energy output that was generated based on the CE at the water–metal interface. When a grounded Pt mesh is placed in water that is heated to boil, a continuous flow of electrons between the Pt mesh and the ground is generated. A possible mechanism for the generation of such electric current is based on the CE between the surface of the Pt mesh and water molecules. The local high-pressure thin liquid film regions between vapor bubbles and surface of Pt mesh promote this CE process. The constant water evaporation and bubble detachment enable the continuous electric current output. In this work, the impact of the heating temperature and the bias voltages on the generation of the current was also studied. This work provides an alternative approach to generate unidirectional current on the basis of CE at the water–metal interface, and it also offers new insights in the design of CE-based systems for the generation of electricity.

Keywords: Boiling water; contact electrification; continuous current generation; NICE 2020; vapor bubbles

Article note:

A collection of invited papers based on presentations at the 5th International Conference on Bioinspired and Biobased Chemistry and Materials & 2nd International Conference on Optics, Photonics, & Materials (NICE 2020) held in Nice, France and online, Oct. 12–14, 2020.

Corresponding authors: Wen Shang and Tao Deng, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China; and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China, e-mail: (W. Shang), (T. Deng)
Wenzhuo Li and Wanying Zhang contributed equally to this work.

Funding source: National Key R & D Program of China

Award Identifier / Grant number: 2017YFB0406100

Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Award Identifier / Grant number: 51521004

Award Identifier / Grant number: 51873105

Funding source: Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission

Award Identifier / Grant number: 2019-01-07-00-02-E00069

Funding source: Center of Hydrogen Science of Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge financial support from the National Key R & D Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and the Center of Hydrogen Science of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

  1. Research funding: This work was financially supported from the National Key R & D Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFB0406100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51521004 and 51873105), the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (Grant No. 2019-01-07-00-02-E00069), and the Center of Hydrogen Science of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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Published Online: 2021-05-27
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Keywords for this article
Boiling water; contact electrification; continuous current generation; NICE 2020; vapor bubbles

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  2. In this issue
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