Multiscale Confinement‐Modulated Cellulosic Dielectric Materials for Energy Harvesting and Self‐Powered Devices DOI

Huancheng Huang,

X.D. Nong, Pinle Zhang

et al.

Advanced Functional Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 17, 2024

Abstract The rapid rise of triboelectric nanogenerators, an innovative technology for low‐frequency energy harvesting and self‐powered sensing, has increased the interest in high‐performance materials. Enhancing surface charge density via dielectric modulation is essential nanogenerators. As most abundant biopolymer on earth, cellulose remarkable properties such as excellent mechanical strength, thermal stability, tunable chemistry, indicating its significant application potential design fabrication Owing to unique multiscale structure processability, holds substantial promise modulation. This review aims provide comprehensive insights into rational tailored preparation cellulosic materials with optimal constants. First, exceptional advantages are interpreted. A investigation confinement‐modulated encompassing molecules, dipoles, fibers along their dipoles undertaken significance interfacial polarization explored. Furthermore, emerging applications superior including harvesting, medical smart monitoring systems, described. Finally, challenges future opportunities summarized.

Language: Английский

Lignocellulose‐Mediated Functionalization of Liquid Metals toward the Frontiers of Multifunctional Materials DOI Open Access

Wei Li,

Liyu Zhu,

Ying Xu

et al.

Advanced Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Nov. 21, 2024

Lignocellulose-mediated liquid metal (LM) composites, as emerging functional materials, show tremendous potential for a variety of applications. The abundant hydroxyl, carboxyl, and other polar groups in lignocellulose facilitate the formation strong chemical bonds with LM surfaces, enhancing wettability adhesion improved interface compatibility. Beyond serving supportive matrix, can be tailored to optimize microstructure adapting them diverse This review comprehensively summarizes fundamental principles recent advancements lignocellulose-mediated highlighting advantages composite fabrication, including facile synthesis, versatile interactions, inherent functionalities. Key modulation strategies LMs innovative synthesis methods functionalized composites are discussed. Furthermore, roles structure-performance relationships these electromagnetic shielding, flexible sensors, energy storage devices systematically summarized. Finally, obstacles prospective pertaining thoroughly scrutinized deliberated upon. is expected provide basic guidance researchers boost popularity applications useful references design state-of-the-art LMs.

Language: Английский

Citations

28
Electrical Phenomena in Trees and Wood: A Review DOI Creative Commons
Vikash Ghildiyal, Clemens Altaner, W.J.B. Heffernan

et al.

Current Forestry Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(1)

Published: Jan. 2, 2025

This review covers electrical phenomena originating from the physical properties of wood, relevant to tree biology and timber industry applications. Membrane-associated cellular like action potentials are excluded. Trees exhibit diverse bioelectric processes origin. The wood hold promise for advancing processing, developing smart materials, while enhancing our understanding tree-environment interactions. Streaming piezoelectric have long histories but now reinterpreted based on better plants. sap flow, discounted in 2000s, been reinstated through recent publications addressing past inconsistencies with current data xylem structure. Electro-osmotic flow is gaining new applications drying. Wood, previously considered weakly piezoelectric, shows much stronger activity after fungal degradation, spurring interest practical underlying mechanism – understood findings structure, deposition deformation cellulose. Internal variation electric (conductive dielectric) green logs facilitates innovative quality mapping methods. Emerging research perturbation atmospheric soil fields by trees offers insights into inter-organism encompasses measurement methods; electrokinetic phenomena, including streaming electro-osmotic drying; heating; technologies dielectric properties; wood-based electronics; electromechanical effect triboelectrification; electricity around trees; electrotaxis. Future should explore electro-osmosis its Electric living trees, generated ion-transport mechanisms, need further exploration elucidate charge separation processes.

Language: Английский

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0
Mechanical sensing by cellulose-aided composites: A critical overview DOI
Hongjian Zhang, Yebin Lee, Tiandong Zhang

et al.

Composites Part B Engineering, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 112145 - 112145

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

Citations

0
Piezoelectric gauge transformation for inverse design of polar Willis transducers DOI
Li Huang, Rui Zhu, Gengkai Hu

et al.

Extreme Mechanics Letters, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 102315 - 102315

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

Citations

0
Multiscale Confinement‐Modulated Cellulosic Dielectric Materials for Energy Harvesting and Self‐Powered Devices DOI

Huancheng Huang,

X.D. Nong, Pinle Zhang

et al.

Advanced Functional Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 17, 2024

Abstract The rapid rise of triboelectric nanogenerators, an innovative technology for low‐frequency energy harvesting and self‐powered sensing, has increased the interest in high‐performance materials. Enhancing surface charge density via dielectric modulation is essential nanogenerators. As most abundant biopolymer on earth, cellulose remarkable properties such as excellent mechanical strength, thermal stability, tunable chemistry, indicating its significant application potential design fabrication Owing to unique multiscale structure processability, holds substantial promise modulation. This review aims provide comprehensive insights into rational tailored preparation cellulosic materials with optimal constants. First, exceptional advantages are interpreted. A investigation confinement‐modulated encompassing molecules, dipoles, fibers along their dipoles undertaken significance interfacial polarization explored. Furthermore, emerging applications superior including harvesting, medical smart monitoring systems, described. Finally, challenges future opportunities summarized.

Language: Английский

Citations

2