Chicken feather fiber-based bio-piezoelectric energy harvester: an efficient green energy source for flexible electronics

Kar, Epsita; Barman, Moumita; Das, Soumen; Das, Ankita; Datta, Pallab; Mukherjee, Sampad; Tavakoli, Mahmoud; Mukherjee, Nillohit; Bose, Navonil

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“…Kar et al. [ 132 ] developed a flexible, biocompatible, and biodegradable energy harvester using chicken‐feather fibers. These fibers are an abundant biowaste material, with excellent mechanical characteristics and a high surface‐to‐weight ratio.…”

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Advances in Biodegradable Electronic Skin: Material Progress and Recent Applications in Sensing, Robotics, and Human–Machine Interfaces

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The signals generated by these stimuli are transferred to the central neural network and brain to provide an appropriate response. In addition, biological skin possesses unique characteristics, such as stretchability, self-healing ability, and mechanical toughness. [1][2][3] It also provides an effective barrier against ambient elements such as chemicals, gases, radiation, and external biological agents.Electronic skin (e-skin) is an artificial smart skin composed of various electronic sensors distributed on a single uniform surface or stacked on multiple surfaces. It mimics some of the biological skin senses and provides a promising sensing platform for key application areas such as wearable sensors, robotics, and prosthetics (Figure 1). [1,[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] However, serious concerns have arisen regarding the production of electronic waste (e-waste), the influence of e-skin on human health, the safety of wearable electronic devices, costs, and environmental limitations. These concerns have encouraged researchers to develop biocompatible, renewable, sustainable, and biodegradable flexible wearable detection devices and biosensing platforms. [12][13][14][15][16] Biological skin regularly regenerates the old superficial layer of the epidermis with new skin cells during the healing process. Inspired by this natural degradation cycle, artificial biodegradable skin-based electronics should be designed for programmable degradation, in contrast to conventional electronic materials. To achieve this goal, the development of biocompatible, environmentally friendly electronic systems that can be used for the fabrication of biodegradable and sustainable e-skins is important.Various low-cost, nontoxic, renewable, and natural substances and polymer-based materials that can be applied to the development of sustainable, biodegradable e-skins and alleviate the environmental and health risks of e-waste materials are available. [17][18][19][20][21][22] E-waste disrupts the biological activity of microbial enzymes and their metabolisms, which decreases the resistance and the diversity of soil-based microbial communities. [23] In addition, in the human body, the accumulation of metals and metalloids used in the fabrication of conventional electronics can cause a range of biophysical malfunctions and diseases, such as liver damage by Cu, behavioral disorders by Pb, and lung cancer and kidney damage by Cd. [24][25][26][27] The rapid growth of the electronics industry and proliferation of electronic materials and telecommunications technologies has led to the release of a massive amount of untreated electronic waste (e-waste) into the environment. Consequently, catastrophic environmental damage at the microbiome level and serious human health diseases threaten the natural fate of the planet. Currently, the demand for wearable electronics for applications in personalized medicine, electronic skins (e-skins), and health monitoring is substantial and growing. Therefore, "green" characteristics such as biodegradability, self-healin...

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“…Green energy harvesting techniques from the ambient environment are categorized based on natural energy sources such as solar, thermal, electromechanical, and mechanical. [1][2][3][4][5] Among the different conversion methods piezoelectric nanogenerator (NG) is a powerful and upcoming approach for converting low-frequency mechanical energy into electricity that works through the piezoelectric potential created by an externally applied strain in a piezoelectric material for driving the flow of electrons to the external load. 6,7 Recently human-motionbased piezoelectric energy harvesters (PZEH) have attracted tremendous interest due to their potential applications in portable, embedded, and wearable smart electronics that require a self-sufficient and sustainable power source.…”

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Aluminum impregnated zinc oxide engineered poly(vinylidene fluoride hexafluoropropylene)‐based flexible nanocomposite for efficient harvesting of mechanical energy

Pratihar

Kar

Sen

2022

Intl J of Energy Research

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Confronting the depletion of fossil fuel energy as well as pollution generated from chemical batteries, associated with the increasing number of electronic equipment and the internet of things, results in a high requirement of lightweight, low cost, sustainable, and durable power devices. Currently, a flexible and self-powered piezoelectric energy harvester (PZEH) is a suitable alternative, which may be easily integrated with small electronics to realize real-time sustainable energy generation. Therefore, a novel PZEH has been fabricated at room temperature (30 C) using Al-doped ZnO (Al@ZnO) incorporated poly(vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) nanocomposites. Al@ZnO enables nucleation of electroactive phase within PVDF-HFP (10PALZO) exhibited polarity at a much higher fraction (F[EA] >90%) compared to neat PVDF-HFP (F[EA] = 63.8%). Piezoelectric energy harvesting capability of the device has been investigated under gentle repeated human finger tapping.

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“…The chicken feather-based fiber has also been demonstrated as an energy harvester which could generate an approximate 10 V output voltage wherein the power density and current density have been recorded as 6 mW/cm 2 and 1.8 mA/cm 2 , respectively, under biomechanical pressure (0.13− 0.31 MPa) exerted by tapping. 27 Considering the upcoming requirement of natural materialbased energy harvesting technology, our present study has demonstrated on the development of a completely organicbased hybrid (piezo-cum-tribo) energy harvester using the casein/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) blend material. In this study, casein/PVA in the form of a NF web has mainly been explored as a piezoelectric-cum-triboelectric component.…”

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“…On the other hand, activated carbon and a DNA-filled polymer have been studied as an energy harvester which has exhibited open-circuit voltages of 49.6 and 20 V. , Kumar et al have reported that fish scale particles in the PVDF matrix can show a voltage of 22 V and a high energy density of 28.5 μW/cm 2 . The chicken feather-based fiber has also been demonstrated as an energy harvester which could generate an approximate 10 V output voltage wherein the power density and current density have been recorded as 6 mW/cm 2 and 1.8 mA/cm 2 , respectively, under biomechanical pressure (0.13–0.31 MPa) exerted by tapping …”

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New Insights toward Casein/Polyvinyl Alcohol Electrospun Nanofibrous Webs as a Piezoelectric-Cum-Triboelectric Energy Harvester

Bairagi

Banerjee

Kalyaniyan

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ACS Appl. Electron. Mater.

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Herein, a hybrid piezoelectric-cum-triboelectric energy harvesting device has been fabricated very successfully by using a casein/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-based electrospun nanofibrous (NF) web. At first, the casein powder has been synthesized by using cow milk in the laboratory. Thereafter, the casein nanofiber has been prepared by the electrospinning method with the help of the PVA polymer since casein is not spinnable as a single component due to its higher tendency to form intermolecular hydrogen bonds among the surrounding casein molecules. The PVA polymer has been used to create a secondary bond with the casein molecule so that casein can be easily spinnable by the electrospinning process. The synthesized casein molecules and the developed casein/PVA NF web have been characterized. Various structural analysis techniques (Fourier transform infrared and X-ray diffraction) have been used to confirm the presence of different functional groups (−OH, CO, −NH, and −CONH) and the crystallinity, respectively, in the blend of casein and the PVA polymer. For confirming the piezoelectric behavior of the casein/PVA solution cast film, the ferroelectric property has been analyzed by the P–E hysteresis loop. The developed hybrid solution cast film has shown a remnant polarization of ∼33 μC/cm2. Finally, energy harvesting performances have been measured by simple finger tapping and by the standard testing method. The energy harvesting device has shown an output voltage and a current of ∼20 V and ∼37 μA, respectively, by repeated finger tapping on the device, while ∼195 mV output voltage and ∼0.018 μA current have been found to be generated in the case of the standard testing method. Furthermore, this device could glow “IITD text” made of 20 light-emitting diodes at a time by simple finger tapping on the device. This directly substantiates that the developed device can be of practical use in different niche applications.

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Chicken feather fiber-based bio-piezoelectric energy harvester: an efficient green energy source for flexible electronics

Abstract: Large demands of wearable electronics and self-powered biomedical devices have triggered the search for efficient, biocompatible, flexible energy harvesters. However it is still challenging to develop such advanced energy harvesters...

Cited by 22 publications

References 56 publications

Advances in Biodegradable Electronic Skin: Material Progress and Recent Applications in Sensing, Robotics, and Human–Machine Interfaces

Advances in Biodegradable Electronic Skin: Material Progress and Recent Applications in Sensing, Robotics, and Human–Machine Interfaces

Aluminum impregnated zinc oxide engineered poly(vinylidene fluoride hexafluoropropylene)‐based flexible nanocomposite for efficient harvesting of mechanical energy

New Insights toward Casein/Polyvinyl Alcohol Electrospun Nanofibrous Webs as a Piezoelectric-Cum-Triboelectric Energy Harvester

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