Toward a Rapid-Fabricated Triboelectric Device with a 1,3-Phosphorylated Poly(vinyl alcohol) Polymer for Water Turbulence Energy Harvesting

Ye Wu; Hao Fu; Laibao Zhang; Yingcheng Lin; Orhan Kizilkaya; Jian Xu

doi:10.1021/acsomega.8b00895

Toward a Rapid-Fabricated Triboelectric Device with a 1,3-Phosphorylated Poly(vinyl alcohol) Polymer for Water Turbulence Energy Harvesting

ACS Omega. 2018 Jul 31;3(7):8421-8428. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00895.

Authors

Ye Wu¹, Hao Fu², Laibao Zhang¹, Yingcheng Lin^{3

3}, Orhan Kizilkaya⁴, Jian Xu¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Cain Department of Chemistry Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States.
² Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mcgill University, 817 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C3, Canada.
³ Key Laboratory of Dependable Service Computing in Cyber Physical Society of Ministry of Education and College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China.
⁴ Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State University, 6980 Jefferson Hwy., Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806, United States.

Abstract

Electricity generation from coal, nuclear reaction, and shale gas has brought environmental, safety, and health concerns. The electricity industry is constantly seeking sustainable, safe, and healthy way of electricity generation. The use of triboelectric device is promising for producing electricity from water energy. In this study, we report on the rapid fabrication of a 1,3-phosphorylated poly(vinyl alcohol) gel-based triboelectric device and direct harvesting of water turbulence energy using this device. The gel was prepared by the reaction of poly(vinyl alcohol) with dipotassium phosphate. The synthesized gel was characterized by mass spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis/difference thermogravimetry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscope, Raman, and carbon and oxygen K-edges soft X-ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy. The triboelectric device was used to harvest electricity from water turbulence.