3D-Printed Flexible PVDF-TrFE Composites with Aligned BCZT Nanowires and Interdigital Electrodes for Piezoelectric Nanogenerator Applications

Mingyang Yan; Huimin Li; Shengwen Liu; Zhida Xiao; Xi Yuan; Di Zhai; Kechao Zhou; Chris R. Bowen; Yan Zhang; Dou Zhang

doi:10.1021/acsapm.3c00475

3D-Printed Flexible PVDF-TrFE Composites with Aligned BCZT Nanowires and Interdigital Electrodes for Piezoelectric Nanogenerator Applications

Mingyang Yan, Huimin Li, Shengwen Liu, Zhida Xiao, Xi Yuan, Di Zhai, Kechao Zhou, Chris R. Bowen, Yan Zhang, Dou Zhang

Central South University

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Abstract

Piezoelectric nanogenerators based on piezoelectric nanocomposites have attracted much interest in recent decades owing to their excellent piezoelectric properties and application in self-powered systems and wearable sensors. As a promising piezoelectric ceramic filler in composite-based generators, one-dimensional (1D) piezoelectric nanowires were filled into a polymer matrix to enhance its dielectric and piezoelectric properties. In this paper, flexible PVDF-TrFE composite films containing highly aligned Ba0.85Ca0.15Ti0.9Zr0.1O3 (BCZT) nanowires (NWs) have been manufactured via a direct-ink writing method. The effect of BCZT NW content on the dielectric, ferroelectric, and piezoelectric properties was investigated using multiphysics modeling and detailed experiments. An optimum composite composition was discovered, and the piezoelectric composite film with 15 wt % BCZT NWs possessed the highest energy harvesting figure of merit of 5.3 × 10-12 m2/N. Interdigital electrodes were combined with the composite to fabricate a patterned piezoelectric nanogenerator, where the piezoelectric nanogenerator can produce an open-circuit output voltage of 17 V, and the maximum output power density could reach 5.6 μW/cm2. This work provides opportunities for the optimization and fabrication of piezoelectric materials for energy-harvesting and sensing applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4879-4888
Number of pages	10
Journal	ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Volume	5
Issue number	7
Early online date	5 Jun 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.3c00475
Publication status	Published - 14 Jul 2023

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Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the National Key Research and Development Program (2022YFB3807404) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52172134 and 52204263), the Key Research and Development Project of Hunan Province (no. 2020WK2004), the Overseas Talent Introduction Project of China, the Hundred Youth Talents Program of Hunan, and the State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha, China. Also, this work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University.

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The authors acknowledge the National Key Research and Development Program (2022YFB3807404) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52172134 and 52204263), the Key Research and Development Project of Hunan Province (no. 2020WK2004), the Overseas Talent Introduction Project of China, the Hundred Youth Talents Program of Hunan, and the State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha, China. Also, this work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University.

Keywords

BCZT nanowires
direct-ink writing
energy harvesting
interdigital electrodes
nanowire alignment

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Process Chemistry and Technology
Polymers and Plastics
Organic Chemistry

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3D-Printed Flexible PVDF-TrFE Composites with Aligned BCZT Nanowires and Interdigital Electrodes for Piezoelectric Nanogenerator Applications

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