Affiliation:
1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei 10617 Taiwan
2. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering National Central University Taoyuan 32001 Taiwan
3. National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center Hsinchu 30076 Taiwan
4. Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei 10617 Taiwan
5. Advanced Research Center for Green Materials Science and Technology National Taiwan University Taipei 10617 Taiwan
Abstract
AbstractAmid growing interest in using body heat for electricity in wearables, creating stretchable devices poses a major challenge. Herein, a hydrogel composed of two core constituents, namely the negatively‐charged 2‐acrylamido‐2‐methylpropanesulfonic acid and the zwitterionic (ZI) sulfobetaine acrylamide, is engineered into a double‐network hydrogel. This results in a significant enhancement in mechanical properties, with tensile stress and strain of up to 470.3 kPa and 106.6%, respectively. Moreover, the ZI nature of the polymer enables the fabrication of a device with polar thermoelectric properties by modulating the pH. Thus, the ionic Seebeck coefficient (Si) of the ZI hydrogel ranges from −32.6 to 31.7 mV K−1 as the pH is varied from 1 to 14, giving substantial figure of merit (ZTi) values of 3.8 and 3.6, respectively. Moreover, a prototype stretchable ionic thermoelectric supercapacitor incorporating the ZI hydrogel exhibits notable power densities of 1.8 and 0.9 mW m−2 at pH 1 and 14, respectively. Thus, the present work paves the way for the utilization of pH‐sensitive, stretchable ZI hydrogels for thermoelectric applications, with a specific focus on harvesting low‐grade waste heat within the temperature range of 25–40 °C.
Funder
Ministry of Education
National Taiwan University
National Science and Technology Council
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