Abstract
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), a newly developed energy harvesting device that converts surrounding environmental mechanical stimuli into electricity, have been significantly explored as an ideal long-term power source for electrical devices. Despite recent advances, the development of advanced TENG devices with sufficient outputs to sustainably power electronic devices and rapid self-healability under mild conditions to improve their lifetime and function is highly demanded. Here, we report a robust self-healable and reprocessable TENG fabricated with a covalent adaptive network based on mechanically strong fluorinated poly(hindered urea) (F-PHU) integrated with ionic liquid as an efficient dielectric material to improve its triboelectric efficiency and self-healing capability simultaneously. The synthesis and integration of a well-defined reactive copolymer having both pendant fluorinated and t-butylamino bulky groups are the key to fabricate robust F-PHU networks containing fluorinated dangling chains that can interact with ionic liquids to induce ionic polarization, which raises the dielectric constant and thus increases triboelectric performance. They also are cross-linked with dynamic bulky urea linkages for rapid self-healability and high reprocessability through their reversible exchange reactions at moderate temperatures. The developed ionic F-PHU materials exhibit a high TENG output performance (power density of 173.0 mW/m2) as well as high TENG output recovery upon repairing their surface damages. This work demonstrates that such a synergistic design of triboelectric ionic F-PHU materials could have great potential for applications requiring high-performance and long-lasting energy harvesting.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 17806-17817 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 15 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 Apr 20 |
Keywords
- dynamic/reversible chemistries
- fluorinated polymer network
- ionic liquids
- poly(hindered urea)
- reprocessability
- self-healability
- triboelectric nanogenerator
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Materials Science(all)