2-D self-healable polyaniline-polypyrrole nanoflakes based triboelectric nanogenerator for self-powered solar light photo detector with DFT study

Shakti Singh; Ravi Kant Tripathi; Manoj Kumar Gupta; Gulzhian I Dzhardimalieva; Igor E Uflyand; BalChandra Yadav

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2021.05.052

2-D self-healable polyaniline-polypyrrole nanoflakes based triboelectric nanogenerator for self-powered solar light photo detector with DFT study

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2021 Oct 15:600:572-585. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.05.052. Epub 2021 May 12.

Authors

Shakti Singh¹, Ravi Kant Tripathi¹, Manoj Kumar Gupta², Gulzhian I Dzhardimalieva³, Igor E Uflyand⁴, BalChandra Yadav⁵

Affiliations

¹ Nanomaterials and Sensors Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow 226025, India.
² CSIR-Avanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, Bhopal 462026, India.
³ Laboratory of Metallopolymers, The Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS, Academician Semenov Avenue 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142432, Russian Federation.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, Southern Federal University, B. Sadovaya Str. 105/42, Rostov-on-Don 344006, Russian Federation.
⁵ Nanomaterials and Sensors Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow 226025, India. Electronic address: bcyadava@bbau.ac.in.

PMID: 34034119
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.05.052

Abstract

This work demonstrates an easy and cost-effective synthesis of PANI-PPY conducting nanoflakes (NFs) with a self-healing capability. Scanning electron microscopic (SEM) analysis shows the minimum width of NFs as 30 nm, while HRTEM analysis confirms the shape, size, and semi-crystalline nature of the polymer. These PANI-PPY NFs were used to fabricate a contact separation mode triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) based self-powered photosensor which gave the maximum output voltage (149 V), maximum output current (16 µA), current density 0.56 µAcm^-2_, and power density 83.56 µWcm^-2. Detailed literature survey shows the comparative study of PANI-PPY NF's with other photo-sensing materials. This literature review highlights the tremendous ability of PANI-PPY to self-restore and ultra-fast self-powering nature. This work also demonstrates a very easy and cost-effective method to develop polymeric nanomaterials via temperature-assisted polymerization, which need only a stirrer with a hot plate. Theoretical analysis (DFT calculations using Gaussian 09 and Gauss view 05) shows a consistent increase in stability when the number of molecules in the polymer chains analyzed was increased. The developed self-healing triboelectric nanogenerators exhibited stable performance before and after healing.

Keywords: Nanoflakes; Self-healing; Self-powered photo sensor; Triboelectric nanogenerator.