Title :
All polymeric transducers for energy harvesting
Author :
Di Pasquale, G. ; Graziani, S. ; Pagano, F. ; Umana, E.
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Metodologie Fisiche e Chimiche per l´´Ing., Univ. degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
Abstract :
The power harvesting properties of a new class of all polymeric ionic electroactive materials, named Ionic Polymer-Polymer composites (IP2Cs) from vibrating sources are introduced and experimentally investigated. Obtained results show that the proposed technology gives better results with respect to other ionic polymeric transducers and allow to foresee the possibility to use in the future all polymeric transducers to power post-silicon devices such as polymeric wireless sensor networks.
Keywords :
energy harvesting; polymers; transducers; all-polymeric ionic electroactive materials; all-polymeric transducers; energy harvesting; ionic polymer-polymer composites; ionic polymeric transducers; polymeric wireless sensor networks; post-silicon devices; vibrating sources;
Conference_Titel :
Sensors, 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Kona, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8170-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1930-0395
DOI :
10.1109/ICSENS.2010.5691012