A Novel Pliant Nanogenerator Made Of PDMS and ZnO Nanoparticles

Mareddi Bharathkumar*, Palagani Yellappa**, D. Revanth***
*-*** M.Tech Student, VLSI, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, Tirupathi.
Periodicity:March - May'2015
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jele.5.3.3395

Abstract

In this paper, a novel pliant nanogenerator made of PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) and ZnO nanoparticles is presented. In this device, ZnO nanoparticles are combined with PDMS to form a nanogenerator. PDMS is a flexible kind of material, which is used to form flexible kind of materials and ZnO is a piezoelectric material which exhibits piezoelectricity. A nanogenerator converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. Mechanical energy refers to energy that we are getting from the surroundings like mechanical pressure, mechanical vibrations, etc. By using this energy we can charge batteries of mobile phones and operate smaller electronic devices through wireless power transmission and also it can give endless power in wireless sensor applications. Now a days people are mainly facing problems with power and low battery power. So, to avoid these problems, energy harvesting is playing a main role in industries. Our work indicates the realization of plaint nanogenerator made of ZnO nanoparticles and PDMS and it has some important and interesting applications in energy harvesting. The applications are mainly for low power electronic devices.

Keywords

PDMS, Nanogenerator, Copper, ZnO, Composite.

How to Cite this Article?

Bharathkumar, M., Yellappa, P., and Revanth, D. (2015). A Novel Pliant Nanogenerator Made Of PDMS and ZnO Nanoparticles. i-manager's Journal on Electronics Engineering, 5(3), 30-34. https://doi.org/10.26634/jele.5.3.3395

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