Breathable nanogenerators for an on-plant self-powered sustainable agriculture system
Building an intelligent interface between plants and the environment is of paramount importance for real-time monitoring of the health status of plants, especially promising for high agricultural yield. Although the advancement of various sensors allows automated monitoring, developing a sustainable...
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| author | Lan, Lingyi Xiong, Jiaqing Gao, Dace Li, Yi Chen, Jian Lv, Jian Ping, Jianfeng Ying, Yibin Lee, Pooi See |
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| description | Building an intelligent interface between plants and the environment is of paramount importance for real-time monitoring of the health status of plants, especially promising for high agricultural yield. Although the advancement of various sensors allows automated monitoring, developing a sustainable power supply for these electronic devices remains a formidable challenge. Herein, a waterproof and breathable triboelectric nanogenerator (WB-TENG) is designed based on poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) nanofibers embedded with fluorinated carbon nanotubes (F-CNT) microspheres, which was realized by simultaneous electrospinning and electrospraying, respectively. Using carbon nanotubes (CNT) as the electrode, the WB-TENG shows micro-to-nano hierarchical porous structures and high electrostatic adhesion, exhibiting a high output power density of 330.6 μW cm-2, breathability, and hydrophobicity. Besides, the WB-TENG can be conformally self-attached to plant leaves without sacrificing the intrinsic physiological activities of plants, capable of harvesting typical environmental energy from wind and raindrops. Results demonstrate that the WB-TENG can serve as a sustainable power supply for a wireless plant sensor, enabling real-time monitoring of the health status of plants. This work realizes the concept of constructing a plant compatible TENG with environment adaptivity and energy scavenging ability, showing great potential in building a self-powered agriculture system. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1487652023-07-14T16:02:59Z Breathable nanogenerators for an on-plant self-powered sustainable agriculture system Lan, Lingyi Xiong, Jiaqing Gao, Dace Li, Yi Chen, Jian Lv, Jian Ping, Jianfeng Ying, Yibin Lee, Pooi See School of Materials Science and Engineering Engineering::Materials Fluorinated Carbon Nanotubes Microspheres Waterproof Building an intelligent interface between plants and the environment is of paramount importance for real-time monitoring of the health status of plants, especially promising for high agricultural yield. Although the advancement of various sensors allows automated monitoring, developing a sustainable power supply for these electronic devices remains a formidable challenge. Herein, a waterproof and breathable triboelectric nanogenerator (WB-TENG) is designed based on poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) nanofibers embedded with fluorinated carbon nanotubes (F-CNT) microspheres, which was realized by simultaneous electrospinning and electrospraying, respectively. Using carbon nanotubes (CNT) as the electrode, the WB-TENG shows micro-to-nano hierarchical porous structures and high electrostatic adhesion, exhibiting a high output power density of 330.6 μW cm-2, breathability, and hydrophobicity. Besides, the WB-TENG can be conformally self-attached to plant leaves without sacrificing the intrinsic physiological activities of plants, capable of harvesting typical environmental energy from wind and raindrops. Results demonstrate that the WB-TENG can serve as a sustainable power supply for a wireless plant sensor, enabling real-time monitoring of the health status of plants. This work realizes the concept of constructing a plant compatible TENG with environment adaptivity and energy scavenging ability, showing great potential in building a self-powered agriculture system. National Research Foundation (NRF) Accepted version This work was supported by the NRF Investigatorship (NRF-NRF2016-05) under the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore. The author (L. Lan) thanks the support from China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 201906320347). 2021-05-10T08:25:07Z 2021-05-10T08:25:07Z 2021 Journal Article Lan, L., Xiong, J., Gao, D., Li, Y., Chen, J., Lv, J., Ping, J., Ying, Y. & Lee, P. S. (2021). Breathable nanogenerators for an on-plant self-powered sustainable agriculture system. ACS Nano, 15(3), 5307-5315. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c10817 1936-086X https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148765 10.1021/acsnano.0c10817 33687191 2-s2.0-85103465095 3 15 5307 5315 en NRF Investigatorship/Grant NRF-NRF2016-05 China Scholarship Council/Grant No. 201906320347 ACS Nano This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Nano, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c10817 application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Engineering::Materials Fluorinated Carbon Nanotubes Microspheres Waterproof Lan, Lingyi Xiong, Jiaqing Gao, Dace Li, Yi Chen, Jian Lv, Jian Ping, Jianfeng Ying, Yibin Lee, Pooi See Breathable nanogenerators for an on-plant self-powered sustainable agriculture system |
| title | Breathable nanogenerators for an on-plant self-powered sustainable agriculture system |
| title_full | Breathable nanogenerators for an on-plant self-powered sustainable agriculture system |
| title_fullStr | Breathable nanogenerators for an on-plant self-powered sustainable agriculture system |
| title_full_unstemmed | Breathable nanogenerators for an on-plant self-powered sustainable agriculture system |
| title_short | Breathable nanogenerators for an on-plant self-powered sustainable agriculture system |
| title_sort | breathable nanogenerators for an on plant self powered sustainable agriculture system |
| topic | Engineering::Materials Fluorinated Carbon Nanotubes Microspheres Waterproof |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148765 |
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