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Flexible Piezoelectric Nanogenerators Using Metal-doped ZnO-PVDF Films.

ABSTRACT: Piezoelectric nanomaterial-polymer composites represent a unique paradigm for making flexible energy harvesting and sensing devices with enhanced devices' performance. In this work, we studied various metal doped ZnO nanostructures, fabricated and characterized ZnO nanoparticle-PVDF composite thin film, and demonstrated both enhanced energy generation and motion sensing capabilities. Specifically, a series of flexible piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENGs) were designed based on these piezoelectric composite thin films. The voltage output from cobalt (Co), sodium (Na), silver (Ag), and lithium (Li) doped ZnO-PVDF composite as well as pure ZnO-PVDF samples were individually studied and compared. Under the same experimental conditions, the Li-ZnO based device produces the largest peak-to-peak voltage (3.43 Vpp) which is about 9 times of that of the pure ZnO based device, where Co-ZnO, Na-ZnO and Ag-ZnO are 1.2, 4.9 and 5.4 times, respectively. In addition, the effect of doping ratio of Li-ZnO is studied, and we found that 5% is the best doping ratio in terms of output voltage. Finally, we demonstrated that the energy harvested by the device from finger tapping at ~2 Hz can charge a capacitor with a large output power density of 0.45 W/cm³ and light up an ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diode (LED). We also showed the device as a flexible wearable motion sensor, where different hand gestures were detected by the device with distinctive output voltage amplitudes and patterns.

SUBMITTER: Jin C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7769214 | biostudies-literature |

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