Self-powered chemical sensing via graphene, MoS2 and silicon integration
摘要
Versatile, self-powered chemical sensing is essential for environmental monitoring, industrial safety and point-of-care diagnostics, yet remains challenging to realize in compact, fully autonomous systems. Here we present a platform that integrates graphene-based devices for chemical sensing, monolayer MoS2 logic circuits for on-chip digitization and a silicon photovoltaic module for energy harvesting. The graphene sensors detect a diverse set of analytes, including inorganic salts, alcohols and sugars, as well as liquids spanning wide ranges of physical properties such as viscosity and surface tension. We further demonstrate sensing of environmental pollutants and food-relevant and bio-relevant fluids, highlighting the platform’s versatility. The MoS2 circuitry converts analogue responses from the graphene sensors into stable digital outputs in real time, while the photovoltaic module powers both sensing and processing under ambient light. These results establish a pathway towards compact, deployable, self-powered chemical sensing systems for diverse real-world applications.