Dynamic and Reprocessable Fluorinated Poly(hindered urea) Network Materials Containing Ionic Liquids to Enhance Triboelectric Performance
Authors: Nellepalli P, Kim MP, Park J, Noh SM, Ye Z, Jung HW, Ko H, Oh JK
Affiliations
1 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada.
2 School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea.
3 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.
4 Research Center for Advanced Specialty Chemicals, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Ulsan 44412, Republic of Korea.
5 Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada.
Description
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), a newly developed energy harvesting device that converts surrounding environmental mechanical stimuli into electricity, have been significantly explored as an ideal long-term power source for electrical devices. Despite recent advances, the development of advanced TENG devices with sufficient outputs to sustainably power electronic devices and rapid self-healability under mild conditions to improve their lifetime and function is highly demanded. Here, we report a robust self-healable and reprocessable TENG fabricated with a covalent adaptive network based on mechanically strong fluorinated poly(hindered urea) (F-PHU) integrated with ionic liquid as an efficient dielectric material to improve its triboelectric efficiency and self-healing capability simultaneously. The synthesis and integration of a well-defined reactive copolymer having both pendant fluorinated and t-butylamino bulky groups are the key to fabricate robust F-PHU networks containing fluorinated dangling chains that can interact with ionic liquids to induce ionic polarization, which raises the dielectric constant and thus increases triboelectric performance. They also are cross-linked with dynamic bulky urea linkages for rapid self-healability and high reprocessability through their reversible exchange reactions at moderate temperatures. The developed ionic F-PHU materials exhibit a high TENG output performance (power density of 173.0 mW/m<sup>2</sup>) as well as high TENG output recovery upon repairing their surface damages. This work demonstrates that such a synergistic design of triboelectric ionic F-PHU materials could have great potential for applications requiring high-performance and long-lasting energy harvesting.
Keywords: dynamic/reversible chemistries; fluorinated polymer network; ionic liquids; poly(hindered urea); reprocessability; self-healability; triboelectric nanogenerator;
Links
PubMed: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35385641/
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c01963