From Proton Conductive Nanowires to Nanofuel Cells: A Powerful Candidate for Generating Electricity for Self-Powered Nanosystems
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The likely goal of nanotechnology is the integration of individual nanodevices into a nanosystem, which includes the nanodevice(s), power harvesting unit, data processing logic system, and possibly wireless communication unit. A nanosystem requires a nanoscale power source to make the entire package extremely small and high performance. The nanofuel and nanobiofuel cells developed here represent a new self-powering approach in nanotechnology, and their power output is high enough to drive nanodevices for performing self-powered sensing. This study shows the feasibility of building self-powered nanosystems for biological sciences, environmental monitoring, defense technology and even personal electronics.
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From Proton Conductive Nanowires to Nanofuel Cells: A Powerful Candidate for Generating Electricity for Self-Powered Nanosystems
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The likely goal of nanotechnology is the integration of individual nanodevices into a nanosystem, which includes the nanodevice(s), power harvesting unit, data processing logic system, and possibly wireless communication unit. A nanosystem requires a nanoscale power source to make the entire package extremely small and high performance. The nanofuel and nanobiofuel cells developed here represent a new self-powering approach in nanotechnology, and their power output is high enough to drive nanodevices for performing self-powered sensing. This study shows the feasibility of building self-powered nanosystems for biological sciences, environmental monitoring, defense technology and even personal electronics.
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The authors thank the National Program on key Basic Research Project (973 Program), the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, and the National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology of China for support. This work made use of the resources of the Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy.
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