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Albert Tianxiang Liu1, Yuichiro Kunai1, Pingwei Liu1
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Abstract:
Chemically modified carbon nanotube fibers enable unique power sources driven entirely by a chemical potential gradient. Electrical current (11.9 μA mg-1 ) and potential (525 mV) are reversibly produced by localized acetonitrile doping under ambient conditions. An inverse length-scaling of the maximum power as L-1.03 that creates specific powers as large as 30.0 kW kg-1 highlights the potential for microscale energy generation.
