Membrane-Free Battery for Harvesting Low-Grade Thermal Energy

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Membrane-Free Battery for Harvesting Low-Grade Thermal Energy Yuan Yang,† James Loomis,† Hadi Ghasemi,† Seok Woo Lee,‡ Yi Jenny Wang,† Yi Cui,*,‡,§ and Gang Chen*,† †

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States § Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States ‡

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ABSTRACT: Efficient and low-cost systems are desired to harvest the tremendous amount of energy stored in low-grade heat sources (