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Investigating the role of copper oxide (CuO) nanorods in designing flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator composed of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) electrospun web-based fibrous material

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Herein, a flexible light weight lead-free piezoelectric nanogenerator has been fabricated using electrospun web based on polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and copper oxide (CuO) nanorods. The influence of CuO nanorods on the piezoelectric performance of PAN nanofibrous structure (in the form of a nanocomposite) has been investigated critically. Structural analysis of the electrospun nanocomposite has been done by FTIR and XRD techniques. Morphology of the developed material has been evaluated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), whereas thermal behaviour has been investigated by thermogravimetric analyser (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Finally, piezoelectric performance of the device has been measured by a digital oscilloscope. The piezoelectric nanogenerator (PAN/0.5% CuO) has shown an output voltage of ~ 5 V, current ~ 0.172 µA and power density ~ 0.215 µW/cm2 (when pressure is applied by finger tapping). The same nanogenerator has shown ~ 1.25 V and ~ 118 nA output voltage and short circuit current, respectively by using an automatic force-imparting machine. The fabricated nanogenerator is a potent device in lieu of the conventional battery powered devices.

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The authors are thankful to Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), The Govt. of India for funding (File No. YSS/2014/000964) and also Device Development Programme (DDP), Department of Science and Technology (DST, Govt. of India) (sanction letter no.: DST/TDT/DDP-05/2018(G)) for financial support to execute part of this research. The authors are also grateful to Central research Facility (CRF) and Nano Research facility (NRF), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi for providing all the characterization facilities.

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    Satyaranjan Bairagi, Anupam Chowdhury, Sourav Banerjee, Anurag Thakre, Anubhav Saini & S. Wazed Ali

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Bairagi, S., Chowdhury, A., Banerjee, S. et al. Investigating the role of copper oxide (CuO) nanorods in designing flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator composed of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) electrospun web-based fibrous material. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 13152–13165 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08254-1

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