Abstract

This seminar introduces three recent progresses that can extend the application of high performance flexible inorganic electronics. The first part will introduce two separate procedures suitable for generating and printing a lead-free BaTiO₃ based thin film nanogenerator and nanocomposite generator on plastic substrates. Energy harvesting technologies converting external sources (such as vibration and biomechanical energy from the nature sources of wind, waves or human movements) into electrical energy is recently a highly demanding issue in the materials science community for implantable biomedical devices and sustainable green environments. First, the high performance flexible thin film nanogenerator was fabricated by transferring the BaTiO₃ thin film from bulk substrates. Second, we report the nanocomposite generator (NCG) for achieving a simple, low-cost, and large area fabrication based on BaTiO₃ nanoparticles and graphitic carbons (CNT or RGO).

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