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

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 13678-13683

  Ou, Canlin ^a   Sanchez Jimenez, Pedro E ^a,b   Datta, Anuja ^a   Boughey, Francesca L ^a   Whiter, Richard A ^a   Sahonta, Suman Lata ^a   Kar Narayan, Sohini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

energy harvesting; hydrothermal synthesis; nanogenerators; piezoelectric effect; ZnO nanowires

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY HARVESTING; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; HYDROTHERMAL GROWTH; NANOGENERATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING; PIEZOELECTRIC NANOGENERATOR; POLYMER-CERAMIC NANOCOMPOSITE; ZINC OXIDE NANOWIRES; ZNO NANOWIRES;

HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84973650206     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b04041     Document Type: Article

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