PMID- 23899249
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140501
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 1530-6992 (Electronic)
IS  - 1530-6984 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 8
DP  - 2013 Aug 14
TI  - Sensing and energy harvesting of fluidic flow by InAs nanowires.
PG  - 3953-7
LID - 10.1021/nl402185h [doi]
AB  - Indium arsenide (InAs) nanowire (NW) field effect transistors (FETs) were 
      incorporated into a microfluidic channel to detect the flow rate change as well 
      as to harvest fluid flow energy for electric power generation. Discrete changes 
      in the electric current through InAs NW FETs were observed upon flow rate changes 
      at steps of 1 mL/h (equivalent to ~3 mm/s change in average linear velocity). The 
      current also showed a sign change upon reversing flow direction. By comparing the 
      response of the device with and without a driving voltage between source-drain 
      electrodes, we conclude that the dominant contribution in the response is the 
      streaming potential tuned conductance of NW. In the absence of source-drain 
      voltage, we further demonstrate that the ionic flow could enable generation of an 
      ~mV electrical potential (or ~nA electrical current) inside the InAs NW per mL/h 
      increase of flow rate, most likely due to the charge dragging effect.
FAU - Chen, Ying
AU  - Chen Y
AD  - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve 
      University, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States.
FAU - Liang, Dong
AU  - Liang D
FAU - Gao, Xuan P A
AU  - Gao XP
FAU - Alexander, J Iwan D
AU  - Alexander JI
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130805
PL  - United States
TA  - Nano Lett
JT  - Nano letters
JID - 101088070
EDAT- 2013/08/01 06:00
MHDA- 2013/08/01 06:01
CRDT- 2013/08/01 06:00
PHST- 2013/08/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/08/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/08/01 06:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1021/nl402185h [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nano Lett. 2013 Aug 14;13(8):3953-7. doi: 10.1021/nl402185h. Epub 2013 Aug 5.