Adaptable piezoelectric hemispherical composite strips using a scalable groove technique for a self-powered muscle monitoring system. Issue 3 (27th November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Alluri, Nagamalleswara Rao; Vivekananthan, Venkateswaran; Chandrasekhar, Arunkumar; Kim, Sang-Jae
• Is Part Of: Nanoscale. Volume 10:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 907
• Page End: 913
• Publication Date: 2017-11-27
• Subjects: Nanoscience -- Periodicals; Nanotechnology -- Periodicals; 620.505
• DOI: 10.1039/c7nr06674k
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-3364

Abstract

Abstract : A feasible groove technique was developed to fabricate adaptable HS-CSPNG devices to monitor all non-linear motions of human body movements. Abstract : Contrary to traditional planar flexible piezoelectric nanogenerators (PNGs), highly adaptable hemispherical shape-flexible piezoelectric composite strip (HS-FPCS) based PNGs are required to harness/measure non-linear surface motions. Therefore, a feasible, cost-effective and less-time consuming groove technique was developed to fabricate adaptable HS-FPCSs with multiple lengths. A single HS-CSPNG generates 130 V/0.8 μA and can also work as a self-powered muscle monitoring system (SP-MMS) to measure maximum human body part movements, i.e., spinal cord, throat, jaw, elbow, knee, foot stress, palm hand/finger force and inhale/exhale breath conditions at a time or at variable time intervals.