Kumbhakar, P and Parui, A and Ambekar, RS and Mukherjee, M and Siddique, S and Pugno, NM and Singh, AK and Tiwary, CS (2022) Rain Energy Harvesting Using Atomically Thin Gadolinium Telluride Decorated 3D Printed Nanogenerator. In: Advanced Sustainable Systems, 6 (12).
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Abstract
The 3D printing (3DP) technology offers an innovative approach to developing energy storage devices to create facile and low-cost customized electrodes for modern electronics. Generating electric potential by moving a droplet of ionic solution over 2D materials is a novel method for rain energy harvesting. This work demonstrates a liquid-solid contact electrification-based 3DP nanogenerator where raindrop passes through the positively charged ultrathin gadolinium telluride (Gd2Te3) sheets. The output efficiency of the nanogenerator is increased to ≈400% by enhancing the surface area of copious 3D-printed porous structures. The density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the high electrical conductivity of (112) surface of Gd2Te3 is due to the p-type charge carriers, which help to generate electricity by interacting with the ionic solution. This work can open up a new avenue to advance scientific research on blue energy harvesting and tackle the energy crisis.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Advanced Sustainable Systems |
Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Inc |
Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to American Chemical Society. |
Keywords: | Drops; Electric energy storage; Electric potential; Electron beams; Gadolinium compounds; Nanogenerators; Rain, 2d material; 3-D printing; 3d printing structure; 3D-printing; Density-functional-theory; Innovative approaches; Ionic solutions; Low-costs; Nanogenerators; Printing technologies, Density functional theory |
Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jan 2023 07:01 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2023 07:01 |
URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/78745 |
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