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High value-added development of waste cellulose peels for bio-piezoelectric membrane in nanogenerator-derived self-powered sensor

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Developing high value-added utilization of abundant waste peels could alleviate increasingly environmental concerns and promote economic returns to the industry. In this report, a common waste tomato peel was selected and developed as the bio-piezoelectric membrane for nanogenerator derived self-powered sensor in multifunctional applications. The membrane with a thickness of about 40 μm is composed of nano-layers stacked together, resulting in a laminated structure. The nano-layer is assembled by the interstitial parallel combination of the nanocrystalline microfibrils of cellulsoe Iβ embedded in the amorphous matrix containing hemicellulose and lignin. The ordered cellulose Iβ chain network linked by hydrogen bond in the nanocrystalline microfibrils with a crystal grain size of 1.093 nm is responsible for the piezoelectric effect of the membrane. As a result, a favorable linear relation with an R2 of 0.984 between voltage and force and a sensitivity of 16.17 mV N−1 are given for the membrane based device. Owing to the multiple characteristics of the device, such as nontoxicity, self-powered capability, flexibility and multifunctionality, its potential is exhibited in three types of application scenarios, including human–computer interaction, harvesting wind and mechanical energy, and responding dangerous signal in alarming system.

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This work was financially supported by Educational Commission of Jiangxi (KJLD13100; GJJ212301; GJJ212309), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (20224BAB214023) and Research Project of Huzhou college (RK65007).

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Foundation of Jiangxi Educational Commission, KJLD13100, Shunjian Xu, GJJ212301, Zonghu Xiao, GJJ212309, Ping Huang, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, 20224BAB214023, Ping Huang, Research Project of Huzhou college, RK65007, Shunjian Xu

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    Shunjian Xu, Yongping Luo, Yuanjun Zhang, Yongya Wang & Xianchang Li

  2. School of New Energy Science and Engineering, Xinyu University, Xinyu, 338004, China

    Ping Huang, Zonghu Xiao, Jirui Fan & Mingyang Luo

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SX: Methodology, Formal analysis, Writing—original draft. PH: Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing. YL: Supervision. YZ: Formal analysis. YW: Investigation. XL: Investigation. ZX: Resources. JF: Validation. ML: Validation.

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Xu, S., Huang, P., Luo, Y. et al. High value-added development of waste cellulose peels for bio-piezoelectric membrane in nanogenerator-derived self-powered sensor. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 34, 1414 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-10844-6

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