Harnessing Plasticity in an Amine-Borane as a Piezoelectric and Pyroelectric Flexible Film

Yan Zhang, Margaret A. Hopkins, David J. Liptrot, Hamideh Khanbareh, Pim Groen, Xuefan Zhou, Dou Zhang, Yinxiang Bao, Kechao Zhou, Chris R. Bowen, David R. Carbery

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Abstract

We demonstrate that trimethylamine borane can exhibit desirable piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties. The material was shown to be able operate as a flexible film for both thermal sensing, thermal energy conversion and mechanical sensing with high open circuit voltages (>10 V). A piezoelectric coefficient of d33≈10–16 pC N−1, and pyroelectric coefficient of p≈25.8 μC m−2 K−1 were achieved after poling, with high pyroelectric figure of merits for sensing and harvesting, along with a relative permittivity of (Formula presented.) 6.3.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7808-7812
Number of pages5
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume59
Issue number20
Early online date27 Feb 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 May 2020

Funding

D.J.L. acknowledges the Royal Society for the support of a University Research Fellowship. D.R.C. thanks the EPSRC (grant EP/K004956/1).

Keywords

  • energy conversion
  • flexible films
  • main group elements
  • piezoelectricity
  • pyroelectricity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Catalysis
  • General Chemistry

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