Template-Assisted Hydrothermal Growth of Aligned Zinc Oxide Nanowires for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Applications | Zendy

Canlin Ou | Zendy; Pedro E. SánchezJiménez | Zendy; Anuja Datta | Zendy; Chess Boughey | Zendy; Richard A. Whiter | Zendy; S.L. Sahonta | Zendy; Sohini KarNarayan | Zendy

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Template-Assisted Hydrothermal Growth of Aligned Zinc Oxide Nanowires for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Applications

Author(s) -

Canlin Ou,

Pedro E. SánchezJiménez,

Anuja Datta,

Chess Boughey,

Richard A. Whiter,

S.L. Sahonta,

Sohini KarNarayan

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

acs applied materials and interfaces

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.535

H-Index - 228

eISSN - 1944-8252

pISSN - 1944-8244

DOI - 10.1021/acsami.6b04041

Subject(s) - materials science , piezoelectricity , nanoporous , nanowire , nanogenerator , hydrothermal circulation , nanocomposite , zinc , polycarbonate , nanotechnology , polymer , template , ceramic , energy transformation , energy harvesting , composite material , chemical engineering , energy (signal processing) , metallurgy , physics , engineering , thermodynamics , statistics , mathematics

A flexible and robust piezoelectric nanogenerator (NG) based on a polymer-ceramic nanocomposite structure has been successfully fabricated via a cost-effective and scalable template-assisted hydrothermal synthesis method. Vertically aligned arrays of dense and uniform zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires (NWs) with high aspect ratio (diameter ∼250 nm, length ∼12 μm) were grown within nanoporous polycarbonate (PC) templates. The energy conversion efficiency was found to be ∼4.2%, which is comparable to previously reported values for ZnO NWs. The resulting NG is found to have excellent fatigue performance, being relatively immune to detrimental environmental factors and mechanical failure, as the constituent ZnO NWs remain embedded and protected inside the polymer matrix.

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