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Low-frequency blue energy harvesting for sustainable and active anticorrosion

Miaomiao Cui1,§, Yawei Feng1,§, Hao Wu1,3, Yuankai Jin1, Wanbo Li1,4, Zuankai Wang2( )
Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
Interdisciplinary Research Center for Engineering Science, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

§ Miaomiao Cui and Yawei Feng contributed equally to this work.

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We developed a blue energy-powered cathodic protection strategy by harvesting the low-frequency (< 1.5 Hz) ocean wave energy with an ultrahigh volumetric current density of 5–20 times higher than the reported technologies. The proposed strategy can be easily established on ships, buoys, and other offshore platforms to resist materials corrosion, exhibiting comparable performance to the conventional cathodic protection method.

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Engineering materials serving in marine surroundings are inevitably corroded. The corrosive marine conditions can also be utilized to harvest kinetic ocean wave energy to solve this problem. Leveraging water–solid triboelectrification to harvest low-frequency wave energy for active anticorrosion is promising. Existing techniques are efficient in harnessing environmental energy with frequencies higher than 3 Hz, whereas the dominated ocean waves with optimal wave spectral density fluctuate from 0.45 to 1.5 Hz. Herein, we proposed a highly efficient and sustainable blue energy-powered cathodic protection (BECP) strategy by fusing water–solid triboelectric nanogenerators and cathodic protection technology. Leveraging the highly efficient triboelectrification between the moving water and hydrophobic fluorinated ethylene propylene tube, we developed the built-in power module, enabling the harvest of ocean wave energy lower than 1.5 Hz. The generated volumetric current density is 28.9 mA·m−3, 5–20 times higher than the values of the reported devices. Moreover, the proposed BECP performs comparably to conventional cathodic protection in corrosion inhibition. Significantly, the proposed approach can be easily applied to ships, buoys, and other offshore platforms to simultaneously realize blue energy harvesting and engineering material protection, providing an alternative to traditional active protection technology.

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corrosion inhibitionblue energy harvestingtriboelectric nanogeneratorcathodic protection

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 9,
September 2023
Pages 11871-11877
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-023-5623-0
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Cui M, Feng Y, Wu H, et al. Low-frequency blue energy harvesting for sustainable and active anticorrosion. Nano Research, 2023, 16(9): 11871-11877. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5623-0
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Received: 31 January 2023
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