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High Performance Thermoelectric Materials: Progress and Their Applications

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Highly Sensitive and Patchable Pressure Sensors Mimicking Ion-Channel-Engaged Sensory Organs

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Supramolecular Thermo-Electrochemical Cells: Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance by Host–Guest Complexation and Salt-Induced Crystallization

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Harvesting low-grade heat energy using thermo-osmotic vapour transport through nanoporous membranes

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Direct Power Generation from a Graphene Oxide Film under Moisture

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Photocurrent generation in a light-harvesting system with multifunctional artificial nanochannels

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A thermally regenerative ammonia-based battery for efficient harvesting of low-grade thermal energy as electrical power

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Quantity, Quality, and Availability of Waste Heat from United States Thermal Power Generation

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A skin-inspired organic digital mechanoreceptor

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Fingertip skin-inspired microstructured ferroelectric skins discriminate static/dynamic pressure and temperature stimuli

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A Light-Powered Bio-Capacitor with Nanochannel Modulation

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Bioinspired Engineering of Thermal Materials

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Ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric figure of merit in SnSe crystals

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Nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage

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High Seebeck coefficient redox ionic liquid electrolytes for thermal energy harvesting

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Giant osmotic energy conversion measured in a single transmembrane boron nitride nanotube

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Electrohydrodynamics within the electrical double layer in the presence of finite temperature gradients

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Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future

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Modular thermal sensors in temperature-gated transient receptor potential (TRP) channels

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Biomimetic nanopores: learning from and about nature

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Thermoelectric Nanostructures: From Physical Model Systems towards Nanograined Composites

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Energy Harvesting with Single-Ion-Selective Nanopores: A Concentration-Gradient-Driven Nanofluidic Power Source

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The Direct Conversion of Heat to Electricity Using Multiferroic Alloys

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The Role of Fingerprints in the Coding of Tactile Information Probed with a Biomimetic Sensor

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