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All-in-one cellulose based hybrid tribo/piezoelectric nanogenerator

Show Author's Information Ming Li1,2,§,  Yang Jie1,2,§,  Li-Hua Shao3,§,  Yilin Guo1,2,  Xia Cao1,2,4( ),  Ning Wang4( ),  Zhong Lin Wang1,2,5( )
Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems,Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST),Beijing,100083,China;
School of Nanoscience and Technology,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,100049,China;
Institute of Solid Mechanics,Beihang University,Beijing,100083,China;
Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology,Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Technologies, and Center for Green Innovation, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing,Beijing,100083,China;
School of Materials Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,Atlanta, Georgia,30332,USA;

§ Ming Li, Yang Jie, and Li-Hua Shao contributed equally to this work.

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Li M, Jie Y, Shao L-H, et al. All-in-one cellulose based hybrid tribo/piezoelectric nanogenerator. Nano Research, 2019, 12(8): 1831-1835. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-019-2443-3
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Aybrid tribo/piezoelectric nanogenerators (HTPENG) have been proven to be highly efficient and versatile as far as the collection and conversion of ambient energy are concerned, and the introduction of flexible and green materials is a key step for their potential applications. Here, we developed a HTPENG by using nitrocellulose nanofibril paper as the triboelectric layer and BaTiO3/MWCNT@bacterial cellulose paper as the piezoelectric layer. The output of the triboelelctric paper has considerable performance as fluorinated ethylene propylene, and the output of piezoelectric paper is more than ten times higher than the BTO/polydimethylsiloxane structure. The integrated outputs of the sandwich structured HTPENG are 18 V and 1.6 µA·cm-2, which are capable of lighting up three LED bulbs and charging a 1 µF capacitor to 2.5 V in 80 s. In addition, the voltage signal generated by the HTPENG in contact-separation mode can be used for dynamic pressure detection. The linear range of dynamic pressure is from 0.5 to 3 N·cm-2 with a high sensitivity of 8.276 V·cm2·N-1 and a detection limit of 0.2 N·cm-2. This work provides new insights into the design and application of cellulose-based hybrid nanogenerators with high flexibility and simple structure.


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All-in-one cellulose based hybrid tribo/piezoelectric nanogenerator

Show Author's information Ming Li1,2,§, Yang Jie1,2,§, Li-Hua Shao3,§, Yilin Guo1,2, Xia Cao1,2,4( ), Ning Wang4( ), Zhong Lin Wang1,2,5( )
Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems,Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST),Beijing,100083,China;
School of Nanoscience and Technology,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,100049,China;
Institute of Solid Mechanics,Beihang University,Beijing,100083,China;
Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology,Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Technologies, and Center for Green Innovation, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing,Beijing,100083,China;
School of Materials Science and Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,Atlanta, Georgia,30332,USA;

§ Ming Li, Yang Jie, and Li-Hua Shao contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Aybrid tribo/piezoelectric nanogenerators (HTPENG) have been proven to be highly efficient and versatile as far as the collection and conversion of ambient energy are concerned, and the introduction of flexible and green materials is a key step for their potential applications. Here, we developed a HTPENG by using nitrocellulose nanofibril paper as the triboelectric layer and BaTiO3/MWCNT@bacterial cellulose paper as the piezoelectric layer. The output of the triboelelctric paper has considerable performance as fluorinated ethylene propylene, and the output of piezoelectric paper is more than ten times higher than the BTO/polydimethylsiloxane structure. The integrated outputs of the sandwich structured HTPENG are 18 V and 1.6 µA·cm-2, which are capable of lighting up three LED bulbs and charging a 1 µF capacitor to 2.5 V in 80 s. In addition, the voltage signal generated by the HTPENG in contact-separation mode can be used for dynamic pressure detection. The linear range of dynamic pressure is from 0.5 to 3 N·cm-2 with a high sensitivity of 8.276 V·cm2·N-1 and a detection limit of 0.2 N·cm-2. This work provides new insights into the design and application of cellulose-based hybrid nanogenerators with high flexibility and simple structure.

Keywords: energy harvesting, pressure sensor, cellulose, hybrid nanogenerator

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Received: 11 March 2019
Revised: 28 April 2019
Accepted: 20 May 2019
Published: 07 June 2019
Issue date: August 2019

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Acknowledgements

We thank the financial support from the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, China (Nos. Z171100002017017 and Z181100008818081), the National Key R & D Project from Minister of Science and Technology, China (No. 2016YFA0202702), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51873020, 21575009, 51432005, and Y4YR011001), the "Thousands Talents" program for pioneer researcher and his innovation team, China, the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (No. BX20180081), and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019M650604).

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