Journal
ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS
Volume 1, Issue 7, Pages 3019-3024Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.8b00483
Keywords
energy harvesting; induced piezoelectricity; mechanical stretching; PVDF; poling; structure; power density
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Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) is processed at high temperature to generate energy from waste mechanical energy. The piezoelectric beta-phase has been induced through uniaxial elongation of polymer films at high temperature. The extent of beta-phase has been confirmed from a deconvoluted XRD pattern, found to be similar to 75% of the electroactive phase, and able to demonstrate high piezoelectric effect as evident from the measured piezoelectric coefficient of -30 pC/N after a suitably processed and poled specimen. Bulk morphology and spectroscopic studies support the structural alteration. Following the direct piezoelectric effect, energy harvesting devices have been fabricated which show very high power output of 55.2 mu W/cm(2) using the processed and poled specimen. Thus, robust and easily processable polymeric material having very high energy conversion efficiency is demonstrated which is sufficient to power miniaturized devices.
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