Self-powered ultrasensitive nanowire photodetector driven by a hybridized microbial fuel cell

Qing Yang; Ying Liu; Zetang Li; Zongyin Yang; Xue Wang; Zhong Lin Wang

doi:10.1002/anie.201202008

Self-powered ultrasensitive nanowire photodetector driven by a hybridized microbial fuel cell

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2012 Jun 25;51(26):6443-6. doi: 10.1002/anie.201202008. Epub 2012 May 29.

Authors

Qing Yang¹, Ying Liu, Zetang Li, Zongyin Yang, Xue Wang, Zhong Lin Wang

Affiliation

¹ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0245, USA.

PMID: 22644995
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201202008

Abstract

An integrated system consisting of a carbon fiber-ZnO hybrid nanowire (NW) multicolor photodetector is driven by a microbial fuel cell (see picture; PMMA = poly(methyl methacrylate), E = electrode). The self-powered photodetector can detect at light levels of as little as nW cm(-2) intensity with a responsivity of more than 300 A W(-1).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Bioelectric Energy Sources
Hybridomas / chemistry*
Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
Nanowires / chemistry*
Nanowires / ultrastructure
Photochemical Processes*
Saccharomyces cerevisiae / chemistry