Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, China; Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA; Department of Material Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China.
Biosens Bioelectron. 2020 Nov 15;168:112569. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2020.112569. Epub 2020 Aug 29.
Wearable and implantable bio-integrated electronics have started to gain momentum because of their essential role in improving the quality of life for various patients and healthy individuals. However, their continuous operation is often limited by traditional battery technologies with a limited lifespan, creating a significant challenge for their development. Thus, it is highly desirable to harvest biomechanical energies from human motion for self-powered bio-integrated functional devices. Piezoelectric energy harvesters are ideal candidates to achieve this goal by converting biomechanical energy to electric energy. Because of their applications on soft and highly deformable tissues of the human body, these devices also need to be mechanically flexible and stretchable, thus posing a significant challenge. Effective methods to address the challenge include the exploration of new stretchable piezoelectric materials (e.g., hybrid composite material) and stretchable structures (e.g., buckled shapes, serpentine mesh layouts, kirigami designs, among others). This review presents an overview of the recent developments in new intrinsically stretchable piezoelectric materials and rigid inorganic piezoelectric materials with novel stretchable structures for flexible and stretchable piezoelectric sensors and energy harvesters. Following the discussion of theoretical modeling of the piezoelectric materials to convert mechanical deformations into electrical signals, the representative applications of stretchable piezoelectric materials and structures in wearable and implantable devices are briefly summarized. The present limitations and future research directions of flexible and stretchable piezoelectric devices are then discussed.
可穿戴和可植入的生物集成电子产品由于在改善各种患者和健康个体的生活质量方面的重要作用而开始获得关注。然而,其连续运行通常受到传统电池技术的限制,这些技术的寿命有限,这对它们的发展构成了重大挑战。因此,从人体运动中采集生物力学能量来为自供电的生物集成功能设备供电是非常理想的。压电能量收集器是通过将生物力学能量转换为电能来实现这一目标的理想候选者。由于它们应用于人体的柔软和高度可变形的组织,这些设备还需要具有机械柔韧性和可拉伸性,因此这是一个重大挑战。解决这一挑战的有效方法包括探索新的可拉伸压电材料(例如,混合复合材料)和可拉伸结构(例如,褶皱形状、蛇形网格布局、剪纸设计等)。本综述介绍了用于柔性和可拉伸压电传感器和能量收集器的新型本征可拉伸压电材料和具有新颖可拉伸结构的刚性无机压电材料的最新进展。在讨论了将机械变形转换为电信号的压电材料的理论建模之后,简要总结了可拉伸压电材料和结构在可穿戴和可植入设备中的代表性应用。然后讨论了柔性和可拉伸压电器件的当前限制和未来研究方向。
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