Cellular Polypropylene Piezoelectret for Human Body Energy Harvesting and Health Monitoring

Self-powered and wearable electronics, which are away from the problems of batteries, can provide the sustainable and comfortable interactive service for people. In this work, cellular polypropylene piezoelectret, which is with excellent physical and electrical properties, is utilized to build the human body energy harvesting and self-powered human health monitoring systems. The cellular polypropylene piezoelectret flexible generator can reach a maximum peak power density of approximate to 52.8 mW m(-2). Simultaneously, self-powered human body biological signals detecting sensors are demonstrated to detect the human physiological signals, such as coughing action and arterial pulses. This study strongly indicates the great compatibility and potential applications in human healthy monitoring may pave a new developing way for portable and wearable electronics systems.