A mechanically robust spiral fiber with ionic-electronic coupling for multimodal energy harvestingShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Materials Horizons, ISSN 2051-6347, E-ISSN 2051-6355, Vol. 11, no 15, p. 3643-3650Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Wearable electronics are some of the most promising technologies with the potential to transform many aspects of human life such as smart healthcare and intelligent communication. The design of self-powered fabrics with the ability to efficiently harvest energy from the ambient environment would not only be beneficial for their integration with textiles, but would also reduce the environmental impact of wearable technologies by eliminating their need for disposable batteries. Herein, inspired by classical Archimedean spirals, we report a metastructured fiber fabricated by scrolling followed by cold drawing of a bilayer thin film of an MXene and a solid polymer electrolyte. The obtained composite fibers with a typical spiral metastructure (SMFs) exhibit high efficiency for dispersing external stress, resulting in simultaneously high specific mechanical strength and toughness. Furthermore, the alternating layers of the MXene and polymer electrolyte form a unique, tandem ionic-electronic coupling device, enabling SMFs to generate electricity from diverse environmental parameters, such as mechanical vibrations, moisture gradients, and temperature differences. This work presents a design rule for assembling planar architectures into robust fibrous metastructures, and introduces the concept of ionic-electronic coupling fibers for efficient multimodal energy harvesting, which have great potential in the field of self-powered wearable electronics. In this work, a concept of ionic-electronic coupling fibers by integrating a 2D MXene and a polymer electrolyte to fabricate spiral metastructures is proposed to realize multimodal power generation from various sources simultaneously.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY , 2024. Vol. 11, no 15, p. 3643-3650
National Category
Theoretical Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-204343DOI: 10.1039/d4mh00287cISI: 001226966600001PubMedID: 38764435Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85193634189OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-204343DiVA, id: diva2:1868669
Note
Funding Agencies|Knut and Alice Wallenberg (KAW) Foundation [KAW2020.0033]; Swedish Research Council [2019-00207]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [1082204112H83]; AForsk Foundation
2024-06-122024-06-122025-01-16Bibliographically approved