Moisture-Enabled Electricity from Hygroscopic Materials: A New Type of Clean Energy

Tong Xu1, Xiaoteng Ding2, Huhu Cheng1

  • 1Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China.

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