TY - JOUR
T1 - 3D-printed stretchable hybrid piezoelectric-triboelectric nanogenerator for smart tire
T2 - Onboard real-time tread wear monitoring system
AU - Meena, Kamal Kumar
AU - Arief, Injamamul
AU - Ghosh, Anik Kumar
AU - Liebscher, Hans
AU - Hait, Sakrit
AU - Nagel, Jürgen
AU - Heinrich, Gert
AU - Fery, Andreas
AU - Das, Amit
N1 - Funding Information:
Kamal Kumar Meena and Injamamul Arief share an equal contribution to the first authorship. I.A., A. F., and A.D. have been supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) Project No. 404941515 under the Special Priority Program (SPP2100) “Soft Material Robotics Systems.” G.H. and H. L. acknowledge the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) research training group “Interactive Fiber-Rubber Composites” Project 380321452/GRK2430. Finally, the authors also acknowledge Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI, Japan) for kindly providing the tires for testing.
Funding Information:
Kamal Kumar Meena and Injamamul Arief share an equal contribution to the first authorship. I.A. A. F. and A.D. have been supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) Project No. 404941515 under the Special Priority Program (SPP2100) “Soft Material Robotics Systems.” G.H. and H. L. acknowledge the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) research training group “Interactive Fiber-Rubber Composites” Project 380321452/GRK2430. Finally, the authors also acknowledge Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI, Japan) for kindly providing the tires for testing.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2023/10
Y1 - 2023/10
N2 - An affordable yet highly promising device, friction-based triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has attracted tremendous attention for harvesting energy from ambient mechanical forces and converting to scalable electrical power. However, the output power from TENG often appears insufficient to run self-powered electronics for the long term. While most research on high-output hybrid TENGs focused on ferroelectric particle-based polymer composites, we propose a coupled 3D-printing and transfer-printing based fabrication method for hybrid barium titanate (BTO)/polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) bilayer film with adjustable piezoceramic layer thickness. An internally hybridized BTO/PDMS sensor (HTPENG) results in greater charge separation and more efficient impedance matching at the interface of BTO and PDMS elastomer, as opposed to composites. The higher reproducibility and scalable production method can also drive large-scale industrial production. The resulting power density of HTPENG appeared to be 2.20 mW/cm2, nearly twice that of non-hybrid PDMS (PTENG). For the application, the hybrid flexible sensor appears to be highly effective for tire tread wear monitoring systems (TWMS). The direct, onboard, self-powered HTPENG sensor can detect tire wear with very high precision and with detection accuracy of ≤ 1 mm. Moreover, HTPENG can additionally function as a force and pressure sensor with a wide detection range (500 N > F > 10 N). Advancing a step closer to smart tires, this proof-of-concept hybrid sensor is, therefore, expected to bring about a sustainable alternative for the manufacture of onboard TWMS devices and possible dashboard integration in the near future.
AB - An affordable yet highly promising device, friction-based triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has attracted tremendous attention for harvesting energy from ambient mechanical forces and converting to scalable electrical power. However, the output power from TENG often appears insufficient to run self-powered electronics for the long term. While most research on high-output hybrid TENGs focused on ferroelectric particle-based polymer composites, we propose a coupled 3D-printing and transfer-printing based fabrication method for hybrid barium titanate (BTO)/polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) bilayer film with adjustable piezoceramic layer thickness. An internally hybridized BTO/PDMS sensor (HTPENG) results in greater charge separation and more efficient impedance matching at the interface of BTO and PDMS elastomer, as opposed to composites. The higher reproducibility and scalable production method can also drive large-scale industrial production. The resulting power density of HTPENG appeared to be 2.20 mW/cm2, nearly twice that of non-hybrid PDMS (PTENG). For the application, the hybrid flexible sensor appears to be highly effective for tire tread wear monitoring systems (TWMS). The direct, onboard, self-powered HTPENG sensor can detect tire wear with very high precision and with detection accuracy of ≤ 1 mm. Moreover, HTPENG can additionally function as a force and pressure sensor with a wide detection range (500 N > F > 10 N). Advancing a step closer to smart tires, this proof-of-concept hybrid sensor is, therefore, expected to bring about a sustainable alternative for the manufacture of onboard TWMS devices and possible dashboard integration in the near future.
KW - 3D printing
KW - Hybrid piezoelectric-triboelectric nanogenerator
KW - Smart tire
KW - Stretchable sensor
KW - Tire wear monitoring system
KW - Transfer printing
U2 - 10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.108707
DO - 10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.108707
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85165232266
SN - 2211-2855
VL - 115
JO - NANO ENERGY
JF - NANO ENERGY
M1 - 108707
ER -
