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. 2021 Nov 25;7(4):232. doi: 10.3390/gels7040232

Table 5.

Total mean power and energy recovered from the osmotic engine when combining SPA as polyelectrolyte and SBE and SBAm as antipolyelectrolyte hydrogel particles.

Connection Sample Code Article Size of Sulfobetaine Hydrogel (µm) Load
(kPa)
P¯
(W × 10−6)
E, 1 h
(J × 10−3)
P¯, 1 kg (mW kg−1) E, 1 h, 1 kg (J kg−1)
A SPA@SBE-3.0 500 3.0 3.74 ± 0.05 13.39 ± 0.17 161.61 ± 0.09 581.14 ± 0.35
A SPA@SBAm-3.0 500 3.0 13.53 ± 0.15 48.84 ± 0.54 186.31 ± 0.38 670.04 ± 1.37