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Recently, Professor Nie Shuangxi's team from the School of Light Industry and Food Engineering at Guangxi University made new progress in the field of liquid energy harvesting. Their research finding, titled "Advanced Triboelectric Materials for Liquid Energy Harvesting and Emerging Applications", was published online in “Materials Today”. This achievement has enhanced the international influence of Guangxi University in the field of liquid energy harvesting and represented a new advancement in the fundamental research of the light industry technology and engineering discipline. Guangxi University is the sole contributor to this paper, with doctoral students Cai Chenchen and Luo Bin, both enrolled in 2020, as the co-first authors, and Professor Nie Shuangxi as the corresponding author.
In the papermaking industry, the friction between liquid or pulp suspension and solids, as well as the friction between pulp fibers and liquid, significantly affects the production process and the quality of paper. Efficiently utilizing energy from liquid will promote the development and innovation of the renewable energy field, aligning with the goals of carbon neutrality. It will also effectively support the high-end and green development of the papermaking industry. In response to an invitation from “Materials Today”, Professor Nie's team authored a review paper summarizing the research progress on charge transfer at the solid-liquid interface. The paper systematically reviews how the properties of liquids and solids influence the interactions at the liquid-solid interface and the electric double layer at the solid-liquid interface, laying a foundation for further research and understanding of colloid science and surface chemistry in components for papermaking. Additionally, the paper reviews advancements in the harvesting and conversion of liquid kinetic energy, providing an application research foundation for the realization of sustainable and efficient wet-end chemistry measurement and control systems.
“Materials Today” is dedicated to publishing the most cutting-edge, innovative, and impactful work in the field of materials science. Over the past 20 years, it has become one of the most preferred sources for research advancements, news, and reviews in materials science.
In recent years, the light industry technology and engineering discipline at our university has focused on interdisciplinary integration, effectively consolidating resources to stimulate innovation and achieve coordinated development across disciplines. The discipline has collaborated with related fields such as agriculture, forestry, chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, environmental science, and biology, conducting in-depth research to produce new high-value-added products and drive the development of new materials. These research outcomes have significantly contributed to the inclusion of our university's disciplines in chemistry, agricultural sciences, materials science, and environmental science/ecology in the top 1% globally according to the Essential Science Indicators (ESI). Especially in the past three years, the discipline has aimed at the efficient and clean utilization of fibers for papermaking, actively carrying out application-oriented basic research with interdisciplinary integration. As the first and corresponding author institution, Guangxi University has published numerous representative papers in internationally renowned academic journals such as “Materials Today”, “Advanced Functional Materials”, “ACS Nano”, “Nano Energy”, “Green Chemistry”, “Chemical Engineering Journal”, “Journal of Materials Chemistry A”, and “Journal of Hazardous Materials”.
