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Bionanomaterial Thin Film for Piezoelectric Applications

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Wearable and flexible electronics are recently gaining interest due to the expansion of Internet of things (IoT). Thin-film piezoelectric materials have the potential to be used in the development of flexible electronic devices in energy harvesting, sensing, and biomedicine. This is mainly because of the inherent ability of piezoelectric materials to convert the mechanical energy into the electrical energy and vice versa. Piezoelectricity in material represents the property of certain crystalline structures that are capable of developing electricity when pressure is applied. However, conventional piezoelectric materials such as PZT (lead zirconate titanate) and PVDF (poly(vinylidene flouride)) are expensive, non-renewable, non-biodegradable, and lack biocompatibility due to the cytotoxic nature of lead-based materials. Piezoelectric materials from natural polymers of biomaterials may provide a solution for the drawbacks of piezoceramics and piezoelectric polymers. This review’s emphasis is on the piezoelectricity of various bionanomaterials (cellulose, chitin, chitosan, collagen, amino acid, and peptide). The various methods used to measure piezoelectricity of biomaterials are also discussed. This study shows that biomaterials have the potential to be used as piezoelectric nanogenerators in energy harvesting, sensors and biosensors, as well as in cell and tissue engineering, wound healing and drug delivery.

Keywords

  • Bionanomaterial
  • Piezoelectric
  • Nanocrystalline
  • Cellulose
  • Chitin
  • Chitosan
  • Collagen
  • Peptide

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Akmal, M.H.M., Ahmad, F.B. (2020). Bionanomaterial Thin Film for Piezoelectric Applications. In: Jameel, A., Yaser, A. (eds) Advances in Nanotechnology and Its Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4742-3_4

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