Abstract
MICROFLUIDICS DEVICES APPLICATION IN ENERGY CONVERSION
*Ran Zhou and Mark Parra
ABSTRACT
In recent years, greenhouses gas emissions keep increasing and bring severe impact on natural environment. Renewable energy sources has become more and more important to reduce overall carbon dioxide emissions. Microfluidic energy conversion devices have been found a possible solution to greenhouse issue. Microfluidics energy conversion devices are in their beginning stages but show promising hope. Throughout this manuscript, we have brought to light novel devices that increase overall performance of microfluidic energy conversion devices. The most enticing feature of these devices is their Laboratory-on-Chip capabilities where all functionalities of an entire laboratory are integrated onto a single microfluidic chip, so it can reduce volume of samples and reagents. Here we introduce most important three methods to convert energies in the microscale. These include membraneless electoylyzers, two phase flow fuel cells and vapor fed hydrogen generators.
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