Issue 8, 2018
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A

A solar actuator based on hydrogen-bonded azopolymers for electricity generation†

Yubing Xiong, ORCID logo ‡ac   Lidong Zhang,‡bd   Philipp Weis,a   Panče Naumov ORCID logo *b  and  Si Wu ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
E-mail: wusi@mpip-mainz.mpg.de

b New York University Abu Dhabi, PO Box 129188, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
E-mail: pance.naumov@nyu.edu

c Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang Province, China

d Department of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

Abstract

An actuator driven by solar light is developed by incorporating an azo compound (F-Azo) into agarose (AG). The resulting F-Azo-doped AG (F-Azo@AG) films bend under sunlight irradiation. It is demonstrated that the sunlight-induced bending of the F-Azo@AG film transduces the sunlight into electricity when attached to a piezoelectric transducer.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TA11139H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
21 Dec 2017
Accepted
24 Jan 2018
First published
24 Jan 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018,6, 3361-3366

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A solar actuator based on hydrogen-bonded azopolymers for electricity generation

Y. Xiong, L. Zhang, P. Weis, P. Naumov and S. Wu, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 3361 DOI: 10.1039/C7TA11139H

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