Stretchable Porous Carbon Nanotube-Elastomer Hybrid Nanocomposite for Harvesting Mechanical Energy

You Jun Fan; Xian Song Meng; Hua Yang Li; Shuang Yang Kuang; Lei Zhang; Ying Wu; Zhong Lin Wang; Guang Zhu

doi:10.1002/adma.201603115

Stretchable Porous Carbon Nanotube-Elastomer Hybrid Nanocomposite for Harvesting Mechanical Energy

Adv Mater. 2017 Jan;29(2). doi: 10.1002/adma.201603115. Epub 2016 Nov 21.

Authors

You Jun Fan¹, Xian Song Meng¹, Hua Yang Li¹, Shuang Yang Kuang¹, Lei Zhang^{1

2}, Ying Wu³, Zhong Lin Wang^{1

4}, Guang Zhu¹

Affiliations

¹ Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Beijing, 100083, P. R. China.
² Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.
³ Chongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing, 401331, P. R. China.
⁴ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.

PMID: 27869330
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201603115

Abstract

A stretchable porous nanocomposite (PNC) is reported based on a hybrid of a multiwalled carbon nanotubes network and a poly(dimethylsiloxane) matrix for harvesting energy from mechanical interactions. The deformation-enabled energy-generating process makes the PNC applicable to various mechanical interactions, including pressing, stretching, bending, and twisting. It can be potentially used as an energy solution for wearable electronics.

Keywords: carbon nanotubes; energy harvesting; nanocomposites; porous structures; triboelectric.