High performance triboelectric nanogenerators based on phase-inversion piezoelectric membranes of poly(vinylidene fluoride)-zinc stannate (PVDF-ZnSnO3) and polyamide-6 (PA6)

Nano Energy

Volumn 30, Issue , 2016, Pages 470-480

  Soin, Navneet ^a   Zhao, Pengfei ^a   Prashanthi, Kovur ^b   Chen, Jinkai ^c   Ding, Peng ^c   Zhou, Erping ^a   Shah, Tahir ^a   Ray, Sekhar C ^d   Tsonos, Christos ^e   Thundat, Thomas ^b   Siores, Elias ^a   Luo, Jikui ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^e TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Polyamide 6 (PA6); Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF); Triboelectric nanogenerator; Zinc stannate (ZnSnO3); phase

Indexed keywords

CHARGE DENSITY; ELECTROSTATIC GENERATORS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; MEMBRANES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLARIZATION; TRIBOELECTRICITY; ZINC;

NANOGENERATOR; PIEZOELECTRIC COEFFICIENT; PIEZOELECTRIC POTENTIAL; POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE); POLYAMIDE 6; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; TRIBO-ELECTRIC GENERATOR; ZINC STANNATE;

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84995579294     PISSN: 22112855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.10.040     Document Type: Article

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