With the rapid development of internet of things and wearable electronics,how to conveniently power uncountable sensors remains a huge challenge.Energy harvesting strategy is suggested to collect and convert environme...With the rapid development of internet of things and wearable electronics,how to conveniently power uncountable sensors remains a huge challenge.Energy harvesting strategy is suggested to collect and convert environmental energies into electrical energy.Thereinto,piezoelectric polymers are utilized as fexible harvesters to convert mechanical energy.The latter widely distributes in both our daily life and industrial environment.Intrinsic piezoelectric property further drives piezoelectric polymers to construct fexible self-powered strain sensors.However,relatively low piezoelectric performance restricts their application in detection and conversion of weak mechanical excitations.Herein,wave-shaped 3D piezoelectric device was fabricated by embossing electrospun polyvinylidene fuoride nanofbers.This 3D structured device presents better longitudinal and transverse piezoelectric performance than usual fat-type one.This wave-shaped piezoelectric device was developed for acoustic detection and recognition with a frequency resolution better than 0.1 Hz.This wave-shaped device was capable of frequency spectrum analyses of various sound sources from human and animals and well presents its potential for future wearable acoustic sensors and transducers.展开更多
基金This work was fnancially supported by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(STCSM,Grant No.21520711600 and 20ZR1408200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Grant No.61774043).
文摘With the rapid development of internet of things and wearable electronics,how to conveniently power uncountable sensors remains a huge challenge.Energy harvesting strategy is suggested to collect and convert environmental energies into electrical energy.Thereinto,piezoelectric polymers are utilized as fexible harvesters to convert mechanical energy.The latter widely distributes in both our daily life and industrial environment.Intrinsic piezoelectric property further drives piezoelectric polymers to construct fexible self-powered strain sensors.However,relatively low piezoelectric performance restricts their application in detection and conversion of weak mechanical excitations.Herein,wave-shaped 3D piezoelectric device was fabricated by embossing electrospun polyvinylidene fuoride nanofbers.This 3D structured device presents better longitudinal and transverse piezoelectric performance than usual fat-type one.This wave-shaped piezoelectric device was developed for acoustic detection and recognition with a frequency resolution better than 0.1 Hz.This wave-shaped device was capable of frequency spectrum analyses of various sound sources from human and animals and well presents its potential for future wearable acoustic sensors and transducers.
