Electrokinetic Energy Harvesting using Paper and Pencil

Abstract

We exploit the combinatorial advantage of electrokinetics and tortutosity of cellulose-based paper network on a laboratory grade filter paper for the development of a simple, inexpensive, yet extremely robust (shows constant performance till 12 days) paper-and-pencil-based device for energy harvesting application. We successfully achieve to harvest maximum output power of 640 pW in single channel, while the same is significantly improved (by about 100 times) with the use of multichannel microfluidic array (maximum up to 20 channels). We envisage that such ultra-low cost devices may turn out to be extremely useful in energizing analytical microdevices in resource limited settings, for instance for extreme point of care diagnostics applications.

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