Superhydrophobic surfaces' influence on streaming current based energy harvester

The purpose of this paper is to report the design, fabrication and characterization of silicon-based microfluidic channels with superhydrophobic walls for energy harvesting. We present the fabrication step of silicon based streaming current energy harvester and the nanostructuration of the microchan...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 773; no. 1; pp. 12022 - 12025
Main Authors Fouché, Florent, Dargent, Thomas, Coffinier, Yannick, Treizebré, Anthony, Vlandas, Alexis, Senez, Vincent
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.11.2016
Subjects
Electrical properties
Energy harvesting
Hydrophobic surfaces
Hydrophobicity
Microchannels
Microfluidics
Physics
Silicon
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Summary:The purpose of this paper is to report the design, fabrication and characterization of silicon-based microfluidic channels with superhydrophobic walls for energy harvesting. We present the fabrication step of silicon based streaming current energy harvester and the nanostructuration of the microchannel walls. We characterize the superhydrophobic properties of the surface in a closed system. Our preliminary results on the electrical characterization of the device show a 43% increase of power harvested with our superhydrophobic surface compared to a planar hydrophobic surface.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/773/1/012022