Hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets doped pyroelectric ceramic composite for high-performance thermal energy harvesting

Autor: Qingping Wang, Shenglin Jiang, Christopher R. Bowen, R. W. C. Lewis, Wen Lei, Jun Chen, Ming-Yu Li, Haibo Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Wang, Q, Bowen, C R, Lewis, R, Chen, J, Lei, W, Zhang, H, Li, M Y & Jiang, S 2019, ' Hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets doped pyroelectric ceramic composite for high-performance thermal energy harvesting ', Nano Energy, vol. 60, pp. 144-152 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.03.037
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.03.037
Popis: Recently, recycling energy from wasted heat with pyroelectric materials has received significant attention. However, pyroelectric energy harvesters generally suffer from a low energy efficiency due to the low rates of heat transfer. Here, we report high-performance thermal energy harvesting using novel hybrid pyroelectric ceramics with greatly improved heat transfer and rate of temperature changes. This is achieved by evenly dispersing 0.1 wt% hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) nanosheets into a Pb[(Mn 1/3 Nb 2/3 ) 1/2 (Mn 1/3 Sb 2/3 ) 1/2 ] 0.04 (Zr 0.95 Ti 0.05 ) 0.96 O 3 (lead magnesium niobate-lead antimony-manganese-lead zirconate titanate: PMN-PMS-PZT) ceramic matrix. Due to the vibrations of whole chain and phonon scattering, heat transfer through the hybrid crystalline chain is more efficient than that of unfilled PMN-PMS-PZT. It is demonstrated that the harvested power was increased by up to 65.6%. This work paved an efficient and cost-effective way to largely improve the traditional pyroelectric ceramic for thermal energy harvesting.
Databáze: OpenAIRE