TY - JOUR
T1 - Synergistic effects of size-confined mxene nanosheets in self-powered sustainable smart textiles for environmental remediation
AU - Pandiyan, Archana
AU - Vengudusamy, Renganathan
AU - Veeramuthu, Loganathan
AU - Muthuraman, Amirthavarshini
AU - Wang, Yu Chen
AU - Lee, Hyunjin
AU - Zhou, Tao
AU - Kao, C. R.
AU - Kuo, Chi Ching
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2025/1
Y1 - 2025/1
N2 - Green renewable technologies have become a focus of energy research due to the adverse impacts of fossil fuels, greenhouse gases, climate change, global warming, and battery short life. A new generation of biomaterials with spontaneous piezoelectric properties is highly emerging for generating electricity from ubiquitous mechanical energy. Recent years, there has been a concerted effort to engineer robust 1D functional materials for nanogenerators, leveraging cellulose as the foundational material. This research work produced nanofiber composite of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles and MXene (Ti3C2) nanosheets incorporated into cellulose acetate (CA) polymer through electrospinning process forms the basis for ecofriendly highly durable smart textile fabrication. Formation of MXene nanosheets heterostructures significantly promoted the low conversion efficiency of conventional ZnO to highest output voltage of ⁓35 V, and a short circuit current of ⁓3.34 µA. Synergistic contribution of the piezo-enhanced photocatalytic activity of MXene/ZnO hetero-structured smart nanofibers offers greater environmental remediation of water resources from the contamination of methyl orange (MO) dye with a rate constant (k) of 66.14×10−3 min−1. In addition, intelligent dual mechanistic membranes support sustainable operations (20000 cycles) with strong morphological and performance retention (⁓92 %), showing good chemical and mechanical stability even under harsh operating conditions.
AB - Green renewable technologies have become a focus of energy research due to the adverse impacts of fossil fuels, greenhouse gases, climate change, global warming, and battery short life. A new generation of biomaterials with spontaneous piezoelectric properties is highly emerging for generating electricity from ubiquitous mechanical energy. Recent years, there has been a concerted effort to engineer robust 1D functional materials for nanogenerators, leveraging cellulose as the foundational material. This research work produced nanofiber composite of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles and MXene (Ti3C2) nanosheets incorporated into cellulose acetate (CA) polymer through electrospinning process forms the basis for ecofriendly highly durable smart textile fabrication. Formation of MXene nanosheets heterostructures significantly promoted the low conversion efficiency of conventional ZnO to highest output voltage of ⁓35 V, and a short circuit current of ⁓3.34 µA. Synergistic contribution of the piezo-enhanced photocatalytic activity of MXene/ZnO hetero-structured smart nanofibers offers greater environmental remediation of water resources from the contamination of methyl orange (MO) dye with a rate constant (k) of 66.14×10−3 min−1. In addition, intelligent dual mechanistic membranes support sustainable operations (20000 cycles) with strong morphological and performance retention (⁓92 %), showing good chemical and mechanical stability even under harsh operating conditions.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nanoen.2024.110426
DO - 10.1016/j.nanoen.2024.110426
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85208168783
SN - 2211-2855
VL - 133
JO - Nano Energy
JF - Nano Energy
M1 - 110426
ER -
