Mechano-chemical energy conversion

Fig. 14.4. Chemo-mechanical and mechano-chemical energy conversion through a series of fitting and unfitting processes. Blue arrows, reaction driven by free energy of hydrolysis pink arrows, reverse reactions driven by an external force...

Z.S. Wronski, On the possibility of mechano-chemical activation of powders used in electrochemical power sources. In 200 Years of Electrochemical Energy Conversion - Bicentenary of Volta s Invention of the Energy Pile, International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) Symposium, ISE, Geneva, 5-10 September (1999). University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy (CD ROM), pp. 830. 

MECHANO-CHEMICAL PROCESSES OF ENERGY CONVERSION BASED ON ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS... 

The simplest artificial mechano-chemical system is that able to realise the energy conversion by swelling of a polymer network, using only one liquid component. Thus, a poly(vinyl alcohol)-based gel, crosslinked with glutaric aldehyde and immersed in pure water, realises the mechano-chemical cycle as Figure 4.9 shows. 

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