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Accelerate the Shift to Green Energy with PVDF Based Piezoelectric Nanogenerator

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The two greatest difficulties humanity faces are environmental catastrophe and air degradation, and renewable energy from the ocean, solar, and wind offers a possible answer. This research describes a piezoelectric energy harvester (PENG) for harvesting low-frequency water wave energy. The poled PENG device based on a ferroelectric polymer polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) delivers a voltage of 32 V and a current of 130 nA. The PENG achieves a power of 1.38 µW at 500 MΩ. The low-frequency vibrations generated from the laboratory equipment were effectively converted into usable electrical energy. Furthermore, the output performance of four PVDF-based PENG units connected in parallel was placed inside a 3D printed housing after being exposed to water waves delivered a voltage of 1.1 V and current of 170 nA. This work presents an efficient approach for gathering low-frequency wave energy and realizing the blue-energy dream. This study offers a cost-effective approach for gathering low-frequency water wave energy and realizing the blue-energy vision.

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This study is supported by Basic Science Research Program through the DGIST R&D (22-RT-01; 22-SENS-01) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea and DGIST Undergraduate Group Research Program (UGRP) Grant (2022020012). The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

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    Jeonghyeon Lee, Sugato Hajra, Swati Panda, Wonjeong Oh, Yumi Oh, Hyoju Shin & Hoe Joon Kim

  2. Mads Clausen Institute, NanoSYD, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, 6400, Sønderborg, Denmark

    Yogendra Kumar Mishra

  3. Robotics and Mechatronics Research Center, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, 42988, Republic of Korea

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JL: Investigation, Data Curation; SH: Conceptualization, Writing-Original Draft; SP: Writing- review and editing, Visualization; WO: Data Curation; YO: Investigation; HS: Investigation; YKM: Writing-Review and Editing; HJK: Supervision, Funding Acquisition, Validation, Writing- review and editing.

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Lee, J., Hajra, S., Panda, S. et al. Accelerate the Shift to Green Energy with PVDF Based Piezoelectric Nanogenerator. Int. J. of Precis. Eng. and Manuf.-Green Tech. 11, 233–241 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40684-023-00539-y

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