Towards biothermoelectrochemistry: using enzymes to harvest energy from waste heat

• Grant number: 19/05569-8
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: August 31, 2019
• End date: September 18, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry
• Agreement: CONFAP ; Newton Fund, with FAPESP as a partner institution in Brazil ; UK Academies
• Principal Investigator: Luís Francisco Moreira Gonçalves
• Grantee: Luís Francisco Moreira Gonçalves
• Visiting researcher: Leigh Aldous
• Visiting researcher institution: King's College London, England
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Thermoelectrochemistry is a simple, scalable technique for the direct electrochemical conversion of thermal energy into useful electricity. It is driven by the entropy change associated with a redox process, resulting in a temperature dependence of the electrode potential. The greater this dependence the more efficient the power generation through this method. If there is a temperature difference between two identical electrodes, this difference can be converted into electricity using electrochemistry; such systems are ideal for harvesting low-grade heat that would otherwise go to waste. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GROTHE, RENATA A.; LOBATO, ALNILAN; MOUNSSEF, BASSIM; TASI, NIKOLA; BRAGA, ATAUALPA A. C.; MALDANER, ADRIANO O.; ALDOUS, LEIGH; PAIXAO, THIAGO R. L. C.; GONCALVES, LUIS MOREIRA. Electroanalytical profiling of cocaine samples by means of an electropolymerized molecularly imprinted polymer using benzocaine as the template molecule. ANALYST, v. 146, n. 5, p. 1747-1759, MAR 7 2021. (19/05569-8, 18/13922-7, 14/25770-6, 15/01491-3, 18/14425-7, 18/08782-1, 19/11214-8)

COUTO, ROSA A. S.; MOUNSSEF JR, BASSIM; CARVALHO, FELIX; RODRIGUES, CECILIA M. P.; BRAGA, ATAUALPA A. C.; ALDOUS, LEIGH; GONCALVES, LUIS MOREIRA; QUINAZ, M. BEATRIZ. Methylone screening with electropolymerized molecularly imprinted polymer on screen-printed electrodes. SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL, v. 316, JUL 15 2020. (15/01491-3, 14/25770-6, 18/14425-7, 19/05569-8)