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Polymer-based piezoelectric nanogenerators for energy harvesting
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Project "NANOGEN" data sheet
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| Coordinator |
THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARSOF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Project website | http://kar-narayan.staging.drupal.uis.cam.ac.uk/ |
| Total cost | 1˙635˙710 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙635˙710 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2014-STG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
| Starting year | 2015 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2015-04-01 to 2020-03-31 |
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| 1 | THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARSOF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE | UK (CAMBRIDGE) | coordinator | 1˙635˙710.00 |
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Project objective
Energy harvesting (EH) from ambient vibrations originating from sources such as moving parts of machines, fluid flow and even body movement, has enormous potential for small-power applications such as wireless sensors, flexible, portable and wearable electronics, and bio-medical implants, to name a few. Nanoscale piezoelectric energy harvesters, also known as nanogenerators (NGs), can directly convert small scale ambient vibrations into electrical energy. Scavenging power from ubiquitous vibrations in this way offers an attractive route to supersede fixed power sources such as batteries that need replacing/recharging, and that do not scale with the diminishing size of modern electronics. This proposal aims to develop NGs for future self-powered smart devices. Ceramics such as lead zirconium titanate and semiconductors such as zinc oxide are the most widely used piezoelectric EH materials. This proposal however focuses on a different class of piezoelectric materials, namely ferroelectric polymers, such as polyvinlyidene fluoride (PVDF), its copolymers, and nylon. These are potentially superior EH materials as they are flexible, robust, lightweight, easy and cheap to fabricate, as well as being lead-free and bio-compatible. The key strategy of this proposal is in combining i) materials engineering to create novel piezoelectric polymer-ceramic nanocomposite materials with enhanced EH functionalities, ii) state-of-the art nanoscale characterization to explore and exploit these novel materials, and iii) fabrication of high performance NGs for implementation into commercial devices, using insight gained from modelling of materials and device parameters. The proposed research will culminate in a well-defined process for the large-scale production of highly efficient and low cost piezoelectric NGs with reliable EH performance to power the next generation of autonomous devices, thus steering the field into the renewable energy market as a clean and competitive technology.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |
J.R.A. Dann, P.C. Verpoort, J. Ferreira de Oliveira, S.E. Rowley, A. Datta, S. Kar-Narayan, C.J.B. Ford, G.J. Conduit, V. Narayan Au - Ge Alloys for Wide-Range Low-Temperature On-Chip Thermometry published pages: , ISSN: 2331-7019, DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.12.034024 |
Physical Review Applied 12/3 | 2020-03-06 |
| 2019 |
Qingshen Jing, Yeon Sik Choi, Michael Smith, Canlin Ou, Tommaso Busolo, Sohini Karâ€Narayan Freestanding Functional Structures by Aerosolâ€Jet Printing for Stretchable Electronics and Sensing Applications published pages: 1900048, ISSN: 2365-709X, DOI: 10.1002/admt.201900048 |
Advanced Materials Technologies 4/7 | 2020-03-06 |
| 2019 |
Abhisikta Barman, Sohini Karâ€Narayan, Devajyoti Mukherjee Caloric Effects in Perovskite Oxides published pages: 1900291, ISSN: 2196-7350, DOI: 10.1002/admi.201900291 |
Advanced Materials Interfaces 6/15 | 2020-03-06 |
| 2019 |
Tommaso Busolo, Daniel P. Ura, Sung Kyun Kim, Mateusz M. Marzec, Andrzej Bernasik, Urszula Stachewicz, Sohini Kar-Narayan Surface potential tailoring of PMMA fibers by electrospinning for enhanced triboelectric performance published pages: 500-506, ISSN: 2211-2855, DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.12.037 |
Nano Energy 57 | 2020-03-06 |
| 2019 |
Qingshen Jing, Yeon Sik Choi, Michael Smith, Nordin Ćatić, Canlin Ou, Sohini Kar-Narayan Aerosol-Jet Printed Fine-Featured Triboelectric Sensors for Motion Sensing published pages: 1800328, ISSN: 2365-709X, DOI: 10.1002/admt.201800328 |
Advanced Materials Technologies 4/1 | 2020-03-06 |
| 2019 |
Malavika Nair, Yonatan Calahorra, Sohini Kar-Narayan, Serena M. Best, Ruth E. Cameron Self-assembly of collagen bundles and enhanced piezoelectricity induced by chemical crosslinking published pages: 15120-15130, ISSN: 2040-3364, DOI: 10.1039/c9nr04750f |
Nanoscale 11/32 | 2020-03-06 |
| 2019 |
Ya’akov Greenberg, Alexander Kelrich, Shimon Cohen, Sohini Kar-Narayan, Dan Ritter, Yonatan Calahorra Strain-Mediated Bending of InP Nanowires through the Growth of an Asymmetric InAs Shell published pages: 1327, ISSN: 2079-4991, DOI: 10.3390/nano9091327 |
Nanomaterials 9/9 | 2020-03-06 |
| 2019 |
James I. Roscow, Holly Pearce, Hamideh Khanbareh, Sohini Kar-Narayan, Chris R. Bowen Modified energy harvesting figures of merit for stress- and strain-driven piezoelectric systems published pages: 1537-1554, ISSN: 1951-6355, DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2019-800143-7 |
The European Physical Journal Special Topics 228/7 | 2020-03-06 |
| 2018 |
Canlin Ou, Abhijeet L. Sangle, Thomas Chalklen, Qingshen Jing, Vijay Narayan, Sohini Kar-Narayan Enhanced thermoelectric properties of flexible aerosol-jet printed carbon nanotube-based nanocomposites published pages: 96101, ISSN: 2166-532X, DOI: 10.1063/1.5043547 |
APL Materials 6/9 | 2020-03-06 |
| 2018 |
Michael Smith, Cathrin Lindackers, Kevin McCarthy, Sohini Karâ€Narayan Enhanced Molecular Alignment in Poly†l â€Lactic Acid Nanotubes Induced via Meltâ€Press Templateâ€Wetting published pages: 1800607, ISSN: 1438-7492, DOI: 10.1002/mame.201800607 |
Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 304/3 | 2020-03-06 |
| 2019 |
Chess Boughey, Yonatan Calahorra, Anuja Datta, Sohini Kar-Narayan Coaxial Nickel–Poly(vinylidene fluoride trifluoroethylene) Nanowires for Magnetoelectric Applications published pages: 170-179, ISSN: 2574-0970, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.8b01804 |
ACS Applied Nano Materials 2/1 | 2020-03-06 |
| 2018 |
Canlin Ou, Abhijeet Laxman Sangle, Anuja Datta, Qingshen Jing, Tommaso Busolo, Thomas Chalklen, Vijay Narayan, Sohini Kar-Narayan Fully Printed Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposites for Flexible Thermoelectric Applications published pages: , ISSN: 1944-8244, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b01456 |
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | 2020-01-20 |
| 2018 |
Qingshen Jing, Sohini Kar-Narayan Nanostructured polymer-based piezoelectric and triboelectric materials and devices for energy harvesting applications published pages: 303001, ISSN: 0022-3727, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/aac827 |
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 51/30 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2018 |
Yonatan Calahorra, Sohini Kar-Narayan Piezoelectricity in non-nitride III–V nanowires: Challenges and opportunities published pages: 611-624, ISSN: 0884-2914, DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2018.29 |
Journal of Materials Research 33/06 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2018 |
Yeon Sik Choi, Sung Kyun Kim, Findlay Williams, Yonatan Calahorra, James A. Elliott, Sohini Kar-Narayan The effect of crystal structure on the electromechanical properties of piezoelectric Nylon-11 nanowires published pages: 6863-6866, ISSN: 1359-7345, DOI: 10.1039/C8CC02530D |
Chemical Communications 54/50 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2015 |
Sam Crossley, Sohini Kar-Narayan Energy harvesting performance of piezoelectric ceramic and polymer nanowires published pages: 344001, ISSN: 0957-4484, DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/34/344001 |
Nanotechnology 26/34 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2016 |
Francesca L Boughey, Timothy Davies, Anuja Datta, Richard A Whiter, Suman-Lata Sahonta, Sohini Kar-Narayan Vertically aligned zinc oxide nanowires electrodeposited within porous polycarbonate templates for vibrational energy harvesting published pages: 28LT02, ISSN: 0957-4484, DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/27/28/28LT02 |
Nanotechnology 27/28 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2018 |
Richard A. Whiter, Chess Boughey, Michael Smith, Sohini Kar-Narayan Mechanical Energy Harvesting Performance of Ferroelectric Polymer Nanowires Grown via Template-Wetting published pages: , ISSN: 2194-4288, DOI: 10.1002/ente.201700820 |
Energy Technology | 2020-01-20 |
| 2017 |
Michael Smith, Yeon Sik Choi, Chess Boughey, Sohini Kar-Narayan Controlling and assessing the quality of aerosol jet printed features for large area and flexible electronics published pages: 15004, ISSN: 2058-8585, DOI: 10.1088/2058-8585/aa5af9 |
Flexible and Printed Electronics 2/1 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2017 |
Yonatan Calahorra, Michael Smith, Anuja Datta, Hadas Benisty, Sohini Kar-Narayan Mapping piezoelectric response in nanomaterials using a dedicated non-destructive scanning probe technique published pages: 19290-19297, ISSN: 2040-3364, DOI: 10.1039/C7NR06714C |
Nanoscale 9/48 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2017 |
Anuja Datta, Pedro E. Sanchez-Jimenez, Rabih Al Rahal Al Orabi, Yonatan Calahorra, Canlin Ou, Suman-Lata Sahonta, Marco Fornari, Sohini Kar-Narayan Lead-Free Polycrystalline Ferroelectric Nanowires with Enhanced Curie Temperature published pages: 1701169, ISSN: 1616-301X, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201701169 |
Advanced Functional Materials 27/29 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2017 |
Yeon Sik Choi, Qingshen Jing, Anuja Datta, Chess Boughey, Sohini Kar-Narayan A triboelectric generator based on self-poled Nylon-11 nanowires fabricated by gas-flow assisted template wetting published pages: 2180-2189, ISSN: 1754-5692, DOI: 10.1039/c7ee01292f |
Energy & Environmental Science 10/10 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2017 |
Anuja Datta, Abhijeet Sangle, Nick Hardingham, Charles Cooper, Max Kraan, David Ritchie, Vijay Narayan, Sohini Kar-Narayan Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of Bi2−xSbxTe3 Nanowires Grown in Flexible Nanoporous Polycarbonate Templates published pages: 553, ISSN: 1996-1944, DOI: 10.3390/ma10050553 |
Materials 10/12 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2016 |
Tiesheng Wang, Meisam Farajollahi, Yeon Sik Choi, I-Ting Lin, Jean E. Marshall, Noel M. Thompson, Sohini Kar-Narayan, John D. W. Madden, Stoyan K. Smoukov Electroactive polymers for sensing published pages: 20160026, ISSN: 2042-8898, DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2016.0026 |
Interface Focus 6/4 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2016 |
Richard A. Whiter, Yonatan Calahorra, Canlin Ou, Sohini Kar-Narayan Observation of Confinement-Induced Self-Poling Effects in Ferroelectric Polymer Nanowires Grown by Template Wetting published pages: 1016-1025, ISSN: 1438-7492, DOI: 10.1002/mame.201600135 |
Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 301/9 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2016 |
Anuja Datta, Yeon Sik Choi, Evie Chalmers, Canlin Ou, Sohini Kar-Narayan Piezoelectric Nylon-11 Nanowire Arrays Grown by Template Wetting for Vibrational Energy Harvesting Applications published pages: , ISSN: 1616-301X, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201604262 |
Advanced Functional Materials | 2020-01-20 |
| 2016 |
Canlin Ou, Pedro E. Sanchez-Jimenez, Anuja Datta, Francesca L. Boughey, Richard A. Whiter, Suman-Lata Sahonta, Sohini Kar-Narayan Template-Assisted Hydrothermal Growth of Aligned Zinc Oxide Nanowires for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Applications published pages: 13678-13683, ISSN: 1944-8244, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b04041 |
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8/22 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2016 |
Yonatan Calahorra, Richard A. Whiter, Qingshen Jing, Vijay Narayan, Sohini Kar-Narayan Localized electromechanical interactions in ferroelectric P(VDF-TrFE) nanowires investigated by scanning probe microscopy published pages: 116106, ISSN: 2166-532X, DOI: 10.1063/1.4967752 |
APL Materials 4/11 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2017 |
Michael Smith, Yonatan Calahorra, Qingshen Jing, Sohini Kar-Narayan Direct observation of shear piezoelectricity in poly- l -lactic acid nanowires published pages: 74105, ISSN: 2166-532X, DOI: 10.1063/1.4979547 |
APL Materials 5/7 | 2020-01-20 |
| 2017 |
Yonatan Calahorra, Xin Guan, Nripendra N Halder, Michael Smith, Shimon Cohen, Dan Ritter, Jose Penuelas, Sohini Kar-Narayan Exploring piezoelectric properties of III–V nanowires using piezo-response force microscopy published pages: 74006, ISSN: 0268-1242, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6641/aa6c85 |
Semiconductor Science and Technology 32/7 | 2020-01-20 |
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