Bio-Nano Interfaces and Engineering Applications: Poster Session
Sponsored by: TMS Functional Materials Division, TMS Structural Materials Division, TMS: Biomaterials Committee
Program Organizers: Candan Tamerler, University of Kansas; Kalpana Katti, North Dakota State University; Hendrik Heinz, University of Colorado Boulder; Terry Lowe, Colorado School of Mines; Po-Yu Chen, National Tsing Hua University
Monday 5:30 PM
February 24, 2020
Room: Sails Pavilion
Location: San Diego Convention Ctr
B-26: Fabrication of Nanogenerator and Its Potential Application in Implantable Biomedical Devices: Siddharth Sharma1; Indranil Lahiri1; Partha Roy1; Debrupa Lahiri1; 1IIT Roorkee
Nanogenerator is a device, capable of harvesting any mechanical energy existing in our living environment and converting it to corresponding electrical energy. This study reports the fabrication of a flexible and biocompatible nanogenerator, capable of harvesting mechanical energy from body motions. The fabricated nanogenerator is essentially a piezoelectric polymeric sheet. Adequate mechanical and enhanced piezoelectric properties of the nanogenerator were imparted through a combination of the optimized polymer composition, second phase reinforcements and dedicated curing technique. The polymeric nanogenerator was fabricated using various techniques, such as the electrical poling of piezoelectric polymer, electrospinning, and reinforcement of polymer with various carbon nanofillers, such as carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoplatelets. Results demonstrate that the as-fabricated nanogenerator is capable of converting mechanical energy generated from body motions to electrical energy. Hence, it can be used to power implantable biomedical devices such as foot drop implants, cochlear implants, etc.