Charging a supercapacitor-like laminate with ambient moisture: from a humidity sensor to an energy harvester
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Indrek Must, Urmas Johanson, Friedrich Kaasik, Inga Põldsalu, Andres Punning, Alvo Aabloo
The electromechanically and mechano-electrically active three-layered laminate composed of a Nafion membrane, carbide-derived carbon-based electrodes, and a 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulphonate ionic liquid electrolyte responds to humidity gradient and can therefore serve as a differential humidity sensor or an energy harvesting element. The hydrophilic nature of all constituents of the laminate promotes sorption and diffusion of water across the membrane, causing large volumetric effects. Diffusion of water and the formation of a hydration shell around the ionic groups reorient and dislocate the ionic liquid ions, which in turn induce the formation of an electric charge across the electrodes exposed to different levels of ambient humidity. The generated electric charge can be registered as a voltage or electric current between the electrodes. Furthermore, the supercapacitor-like properties of the laminate allow storage of the electric charge in the same laminate, where it was generated.
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