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- Water-processable hybrid piezo- and thermo-electric materials are gaining popularity for various applications, leveraging nanoconfinement effects in a specific molecular complex.
- The use of 1D-nanofibers enhances the material's piezoelectric performance, achieving a high mechano-sensitivity of 710 mV/N at 3 N force while maintaining durability over 10,000 cycles.
- Thermoelectric analysis reveals a significant boost in Seebeck coefficient and power factor, making this hybrid material a promising candidate for advanced energy generation technologies.
Article Abstract
Water-processable hybrid piezo- and thermo-electric materials have an increasing range of applications. We use the nanoconfinement effect of ferroelectric discrete molecular complex [Cu(l-phe)(bpy)(HO)]PF·HO () in a nonpolar polymer 1D-nanofiber to envision the high-performance flexible hybrid piezo- and thermo-electric nanogenerator (TEG). The 1D-nanoconfined crystallization of enhances piezoelectric throughput with a high degree of mechano-sensitivity, i.e., 710 mV/N up to 3 N of applied force with 10,000 cycles of unaffected mechanical endurance. Thermoelectric properties analysis shows a noticeable improvement in Seebeck coefficient (∼4 fold) and power factor (∼6 fold) as compared to its film counterpart, which is attributed to the enhanced density of states near the Fermi edges as evidenced by ultraviolet photoelectric spectroscopy and density functional based theoretical calculations. We report an aqueous processable hybrid TEG that provides an impressive magnitude of Seebeck coefficient (∼793 μV/K) and power factor (∼35 mWmK) in comparison to a similar class of materials.
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