On the Measurement of the Electrical Power Produced by Melt Spun Piezoelectric Textile Fibres

Matsouka, Dimitroula; Vassiliadis, Savvas; Prekas, Kleanthis; Bayramol, Derman Vatansever; Soin, Navneet; Σιώρης, Ηλίας

doi:10.1007/s11664-016-4710-3

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“…The enhanced piezoelectric performance observed in our template-grown Nylon-11 nanowires makes this material an attractive candidate for future electronic textiles and wearable sensor industry. [30,46,47] Obtaining Nylon-11 Nanowire Arrayed Mats: In order to study and compare the properties of bare Nylon-11 nanowires, the nanowires were released by dissolving the AAO template by soaking in a solution of 40 vol. % phosphoric acid in water for 4 h ( Figure S13).…”

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“…More importantly, the Nylon-11 nanowires were 'self-poled', [2,7,8,15,44,45] and were incorporated as-grown into template-based NGs for energy harvesting with a wide temperature range of operation and excellent fatigue performance, without the requirement of poling via large external electric fields that are otherwise typically required for piezoelectric performance. Enhanced piezoelectric properties of Nylon-11 nanowires make this material a potentially low-cost candidate for smart fabrics in the wearable technology industry, as has been demonstrated recently with piezoelectric PVDF fibers, [46,47] with the added advantage of having a wider temperature range of operation.…”

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Piezoelectric Nylon‐11 Nanowire Arrays Grown by Template Wetting for Vibrational Energy Harvesting Applications

Datta

Choi

Chalmers

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Adv Funct Materials

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Piezoelectric polymers, capable of converting mechanical vibrations into electrical energy, are attractive for use in vibrational energy harvesting due to their flexibility, robustness, ease and low cost of fabrication. In particular, piezoelectric polymers nanostructures have been found to exhibit higher crystallinity, higher piezoelectric coefficients and 'self-poling', as compared to films or bulk. The research in this area has been mainly dominated by polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and its co-polymers, which while promising, have a limited temperature range of operation due to their low Curie and/or melting temperatures. Here, we report the fabrication and properties of vertically aligned, and 'self-poled' piezoelectric Nylon-11 nanowires with a melting temperature of ~200 °C, grown by a facile and scalable capillary wetting technique. We show that a simple nanogenerator comprising as-grown Nylon-11 nanowires, embedded in an anodized alumina (AAO) template, can produce an open-circuit voltage of 1 V and short-circuit current of 100 nA, when subjected to small-amplitude, low-frequency vibrations. Importantly, the resulting nanogenerator is shown to exhibit excellent fatigue performance and high temperature stability. Our work thus offers the possibility of exploiting a previously unexplored low-cost piezoelectric polymer for nanowire-based energy harvesting, particularly at temperatures well above room-temperature.

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Piezoelectric Nylon‐11 Nanowire Arrays Grown by Template Wetting for Vibrational Energy Harvesting Applications

Datta

Choi

Chalmers

et al. 2016

Adv Funct Materials

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“…Vatansever et al [36] touch on the subject of the amount of energy produced by a single filament versus the energy required for powering small electronic devices, though without providing specific data regarding the energy produced. In contrast, Matsouka et al [55] provide power measurement results for the three different compositions and two different cross-sections examined.…”

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“…The research was carried out on piezoelectric melt-spun fibers that were produced based on the process developed by Siores et al [30] with a composition of PVDF, PP and PA-11 with two different cross-sections (ribbon yarns and cylindrical monofilaments). Matsouka et al published research concerned with the durability of the electrical response (peak-to-peak voltage) of the fibers after one wash cycle [44] as well as a paper describing a method/device that could be used to measure the electrical power produced by the fibers [55].…”

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“…The UK-based research/joint research constitutes the only research that investigated materials other than PVDF, namely PA-11 [36,44,55] and Polypropylene [44,54,55]. They also hold the oldest patent [30] on the production of piezoelectric melt-spun textile filaments, the process described in detail by Hadimani et al [29].…”

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Piezoelectric Melt-Spun Textile Fibers: Technological Overview

Matsouka¹,

Vassiliadis²

2018

Piezoelectricity - Organic and Inorganic Materials and Applications

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Piezoelectricity was first described by the Curie brothers in the late 1800s. The first materials investigated were natural materials such as bone and wood and single crystals such as quartz. Then in 1946 it was discovered that BaTiO 3 ceramic can be made piezoelectric through a poling process. This was followed by the discovery of lead zirconate titanate solid solutions (PZT) in 1954 of very strong lead effects which is still widely used in piezoelectric applications. In 1969, Kawai discovered large piezoelectricity in elongated and poled films of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) opening the way for research into piezoelectric polymers. Piezoelectric polymers exhibit low density and excellent sensitivity and are mechanically tough and respond better to fatigue situations. Since 2010, research has focused on the production of melt-spun piezoelectric textile fibers, with the aim of integrating sensing/energy-harvesting capabilities into smart textile structures. In this chapter, a technological overview of the state-of-the-art research into piezoelectric, melt-spun, textile fibers will be presented. The methods used for the characterization of the fibers will also be discussed with special concentration on the electric response of the fibers after mechanical stimulation.

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Wearable and Smart Responsive Textiles

Lou

Ramkumar

2019

High Performance Technical Textiles

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On the Measurement of the Electrical Power Produced by Melt Spun Piezoelectric Textile Fibres

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Piezoelectric Nylon‐11 Nanowire Arrays Grown by Template Wetting for Vibrational Energy Harvesting Applications

Piezoelectric Nylon‐11 Nanowire Arrays Grown by Template Wetting for Vibrational Energy Harvesting Applications

Piezoelectric Melt-Spun Textile Fibers: Technological Overview

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