ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Icevoltaics: from the Workman-Reynolds Freezing Potentials to Electrical Energy
Water and aqueous solutions release a huge amount of thermal energy during freezing. Accessing energy utilizing the freezing process has never been attempted until today. It is known that orderly freezing of dilute aqueous solutions can result in electrical potentials as great as 230 volts at the ice-solution interface, namely the Workman-Reynolds freezing potential (WRFP), and a maximal electrical current of 1 µA. Based on our newly published results of counter ion separation during icing growth in ionic liquids, this project aims to combine high-throughput computing and nanotechnology for probing the approach of controlling and utilizing stable WRFPs and for the first time to enable…
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