• 文献标题:   A New Facile Route to Flexible and Semi-Transparent Electrodes Based on Water Exfoliated Graphene and their Single-Electrode Triboelectric Nanogenerator
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SHIN DW, BARNES MD, WALSH K, DIMOV D, TIAN P, NEVES AIS, WRIGHT CD, YU SM, YOO JB, RUSSO S, CRACIUN MF
  • 作者关键词:   shear exfoliated graphene, sodium cholate, transfer, triboelectric nanogenerator, water
  • 出版物名称:   ADVANCED MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   0935-9648 EI 1521-4095
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Exeter
  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1002/adma.201802953
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Wearable technologies are driving current research efforts to self-powered electronics, for which novel high-performance materials such as graphene and low-cost fabrication processes are highly sought.The integration of high-quality graphene films obtained from scalable water processing approaches in emerging applications for flexible and wearable electronics is demonstrated. A novel method for the assembly of shear exfoliated graphene in water, comprising a direct transfer process assisted by evaporation of isopropyl alcohol is developed. It is shown that graphene films can be easily transferred to any target substrate such as paper, flexible polymeric sheets and fibers, glass, and Si substrates. By combining graphene as the electrode and poly(dimethylsiloxane) as the active layer, a flexible and semi-transparent triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is demonstrated for harvesting energy. The results constitute a new step toward the realization of energy harvesting devices that could be integrated with a wide range of wearable and flexible technologies, and opens new possibilities for the use of TENGs in many applications such as electronic skin and wearable electronics.