Abstract
Recently, recycling energy from wasted heat with pyroelectric materials has received significant attention. However, pyroelectric energy harvesters generally suffer from a low energy efficiency due to the low rates of heat transfer. Here, we report high-performance thermal energy harvesting using novel hybrid pyroelectric ceramics with greatly improved heat transfer and rate of temperature changes. This is achieved by evenly dispersing 0.1 wt% hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) nanosheets into a Pb[(Mn 1/3 Nb 2/3 ) 1/2 (Mn 1/3 Sb 2/3 ) 1/2 ] 0.04 (Zr 0.95 Ti 0.05 ) 0.96 O 3 (lead magnesium niobate-lead antimony-manganese-lead zirconate titanate: PMN-PMS-PZT) ceramic matrix. Due to the vibrations of whole chain and phonon scattering, heat transfer through the hybrid crystalline chain is more efficient than that of unfilled PMN-PMS-PZT. It is demonstrated that the harvested power was increased by up to 65.6%. This work paved an efficient and cost-effective way to largely improve the traditional pyroelectric ceramic for thermal energy harvesting.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 144-152 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Nano Energy |
| Volume | 60 |
| Early online date | 13 Mar 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Jun 2019 |
Keywords
- Hexagonal boron nitride
- Pyroelectric ceramic
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal energy harvesting
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Materials Science(all)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets doped pyroelectric ceramic composite for high-performance thermal energy harvesting. / Wang, Qingping; Bowen, Chris R.; Lewis, Rhodri; Chen, Jun; Lei, Wen; Zhang, Haibo; Li, Ming Yu; Jiang, Shenglin.
In: Nano Energy, Vol. 60, 30.06.2019, p. 144-152.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets doped pyroelectric ceramic composite for high-performance thermal energy harvesting
AU - Wang, Qingping
AU - Bowen, Chris R.
AU - Lewis, Rhodri
AU - Chen, Jun
AU - Lei, Wen
AU - Zhang, Haibo
AU - Li, Ming Yu
AU - Jiang, Shenglin
PY - 2019/6/30
Y1 - 2019/6/30
N2 - Recently, recycling energy from wasted heat with pyroelectric materials has received significant attention. However, pyroelectric energy harvesters generally suffer from a low energy efficiency due to the low rates of heat transfer. Here, we report high-performance thermal energy harvesting using novel hybrid pyroelectric ceramics with greatly improved heat transfer and rate of temperature changes. This is achieved by evenly dispersing 0.1 wt% hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) nanosheets into a Pb[(Mn 1/3 Nb 2/3 ) 1/2 (Mn 1/3 Sb 2/3 ) 1/2 ] 0.04 (Zr 0.95 Ti 0.05 ) 0.96 O 3 (lead magnesium niobate-lead antimony-manganese-lead zirconate titanate: PMN-PMS-PZT) ceramic matrix. Due to the vibrations of whole chain and phonon scattering, heat transfer through the hybrid crystalline chain is more efficient than that of unfilled PMN-PMS-PZT. It is demonstrated that the harvested power was increased by up to 65.6%. This work paved an efficient and cost-effective way to largely improve the traditional pyroelectric ceramic for thermal energy harvesting.
AB - Recently, recycling energy from wasted heat with pyroelectric materials has received significant attention. However, pyroelectric energy harvesters generally suffer from a low energy efficiency due to the low rates of heat transfer. Here, we report high-performance thermal energy harvesting using novel hybrid pyroelectric ceramics with greatly improved heat transfer and rate of temperature changes. This is achieved by evenly dispersing 0.1 wt% hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) nanosheets into a Pb[(Mn 1/3 Nb 2/3 ) 1/2 (Mn 1/3 Sb 2/3 ) 1/2 ] 0.04 (Zr 0.95 Ti 0.05 ) 0.96 O 3 (lead magnesium niobate-lead antimony-manganese-lead zirconate titanate: PMN-PMS-PZT) ceramic matrix. Due to the vibrations of whole chain and phonon scattering, heat transfer through the hybrid crystalline chain is more efficient than that of unfilled PMN-PMS-PZT. It is demonstrated that the harvested power was increased by up to 65.6%. This work paved an efficient and cost-effective way to largely improve the traditional pyroelectric ceramic for thermal energy harvesting.
KW - Hexagonal boron nitride
KW - Pyroelectric ceramic
KW - Thermal conductivity
KW - Thermal energy harvesting
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.03.037
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JO - Nano Energy
JF - Nano Energy
SN - 2211-2855
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