Functional Devices for Clean Energy and Advanced Sensor Applications

Paper-based devices for energy applications

Paper-based analytical devices are lightweight, inexpensively produced, effective, and easily disposable; allowing for their suitable implementation in resource-limited areas. They allow effective handling of quantitative analysis in a diverse range of areas, from standard healthcare and environmental monitoring to water quality monitoring. Nonetheless, such devices often require an energy sour...

Power MEMS devices of energy harvesting from the environment for wireless sensor networks applications

Hierarchically Functional Polymers for Advanced Membrane Applications

the process environment are needed in many emerging energy and environment technologies, ranging from membranes for gas separation (e.g., carbon capture), water purification (e.g., desalination), to clean energy production (e.g., fuel cell). In the Guo group at the University of Notre Dame, we are focused on molecularly engineering polymer and polymer-based membranes that are both structurally ...

Energy-Efficient Sensor Networks for Detection Applications

Advanced Heat Sink Material for Fusion Energy Devices