Optimized Polyvinylidene Fluoride Nanofiber Webs for Flexible Energy Harvesters
Debarun Sengupta,
Aron Michael,
Chee Yee Kwok,
Jianmin Miao,
Ajay Giri Prakash Kottapalli
Affiliations
Debarun Sengupta
Advanced Production Engineering (APE) Department, Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen (ENTEG), University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
Aron Michael
School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Chee Yee Kwok
School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Jianmin Miao
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Ajay Giri Prakash Kottapalli
Advanced Production Engineering (APE) Department, Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen (ENTEG), University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
This work reports the process optimization of various electrospinning parameters to fabricate polyvinylidene fluoride based piezoelectric flexible nanofiber webs for passive sensing and energy harvesting applications. Process parameters like electrospinning voltage and drum speed have been taken into consideration while optimizing the electrospun nanofiber webs for maximizing their piezoelectric property. Finally, the optimized recipe is used to fabricate a flexible PVDF nanofiber energy harvester to demonstrate the energy harvesting capability of such nanofiber webs.
