Piezoelectric Twisted Yarn as an Engineering Platform to Scale-up Stretchable and Breathable Energy Harvesters
Keywords:
piezoelectric nanofibrous, fabrication, ZnO piezo-ceramic materialsAbstract
A highly stretchable piezoelectric nanofibrous yarn of PVDF/ZnO composite was electrospun through a one-step electrospinning method to facial the fabrication process of wearable nanogenerator device in a desired weave patterns and mechanical properties. Electrospun yarns of different counts, twists per meter, and fibers fineness were fabricated on a modified electrospinning setup and then their piezoelectric and mechanical properties were evaluated. Results showed that an increase in twists number and take up speed increase the output voltage of the fabricated strip of yarns. In spite of this, by increasing the amount of ZnO nanoparticles from 5% to 15% in the yarn nanofibers, the output voltage increased significantly which is contributed to the nature of strong piezoelectric properties of ZnO piezo-ceramic materials. It is believed that the whole piezoelectric device prepared by piezoelectric yarns is attractive for a variety of wearable applications, such as wearable generator to collect energy from human movement as a building block of energy- harvesting textiles, and in self-powered biomedical applications. The results of this work can be utilized as a platform to scale-up towards the fabrication of flexible and stretchable energy harvesting devices.
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