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

Water utilization is accompanied with the development of human beings, whereas gaseous moisture is usually regarded as an underexploited resource. The advances of highly efficient hygroscopic materials endow atmospheric water harvesting as an intriguing solution to convert moisture into clean water. The discovery of hygroelectricity, which refers to the charge buildup at a material surface dependent on humidity, and the following moisture-enabled electric generation (MEG) realizes energy conversion and directly outputs electricity. Much progress has been made since then to optimize MEG performance, pushing forward the applications of MEG into a practical level. Herein, the evolvement and development of MEG are…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 22035005, 52022051, 22109087, 52090032, 52073159, 22075165, U21A6004
• CP
  China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

  Award: 2021M701866
• NS
  Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province

  Award: ZR2021QB084