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Textile-Based Piezoelectric Nanogenerators: Advances and Perspectives reviews materials, fabrication methods, and applications of piezoelectric textile materials for smart wearable systems and portable electronic technologies. In the book, current achievements in piezoelectric nanogenerators are summarized, and applications of the textile-based piezoelectric nanogenerators in the fields of sensing, structural health monitoring, and energy harvesting are discussed. Drawbacks and opportunities in these areas are also investigated, making this reference suitable for materials scientists and engineers in academia and R&D.
List of contents
Part 1: Fibre based piezoelectric nanogenerators1. Single fibre based piezoelectric nanogenerators
2. Core-shell yarn based piezoelectric nanogenerators
3. Solution or wet spun fibre based piezoelectric nanogenerators
Part 2: Fabric based piezoelectric nanogenerators4. Woven fabric based piezoelectric nanogenerators
5. Knitted fabric based piezoelectric nanogenerators
6. Braided fabric based piezoelectric nanogenerators
Part 3: Nanofibrous piezoelectric nanogenerators7. Piezoelectric nanogenerator based on PVDF and PVDF-TrFE nanofibers
8. Piezoelectric nanogenerator based on PAN nanofibers
Part 4: Applications of Piezoelectric nanogenerators9. Textile based piezoelectric nanogenerators as sensor device (SD)
10. Textile based piezoelectric nanogenerators as energy harvesting device (EHD)
11. Textile based piezoelectric nanogenerators for structural health monitoring (SHM)
12. Conclusions and outlook
About the author
Shahid Ul Islam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He works at the interface of materials science and textile engineering, with an emphasis on the functionalization of textile and polymeric materials for use in different applications.Dr. S. Wazed Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. After obtaining his Master and Ph.D. degree from IIT Delhi in 2006 and 2011, respectively he joined GE (General Electric) India Technology Centre Pvt. Ltd. (JFWTC), Bangalore as a ‘Research Scientist’. Subsequently he moved to SABIC Research and Technology Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore and worked as a ‘Scientist’ before joining IIT Delhi in 2014. His current research areas broadly include nanoparticle synthesis and application in textiles for value added products, green chemistry in textile finishing, fibrous structure for piezoelectric energy harvesting, etc. He has published numerous research articles in various international peer reviewed journals. At present, he is deeply involved in pursuing interdisciplinary research supported by public funding agencies, Govt. of India and various industries.
Satyaranjan Bairagi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Associate under a project funded by EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. He completed his Ph.D. in Material Science (Smart Textiles) from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India, in 2021. He has received “Distinction in Doctoral Thesis” award for the best PhD thesis. His area of research interest includes functional textiles, engineered materials for energy harvesting, polymers, smart textiles, nanocomposites, surface engineering, triboelectric and piezoelectric nanogenerators, fabrication and characterization of functional materials: nanofibres and metal oxides. He has published several research articles in the research fields mentioned above.
