Harnessing thermal waste with a poling-free molecular pyroelectric zinc(II) complex
Rajashi Haldar1, Sudip Naskar2, Bapan Jana1
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076, Maharashtra, India. eswar@chem.iitb.ac.in.
Abstract:
Transforming abundant thermal energy into electrical energy is an essential and sustainable solution to meet the rapidly growing global energy demand. In this communication, we report an electrical poling-free molecular complex [Zn(bpy)3](ClO4)2·H2O (1) with an appreciable pyroelectric coefficient value of 25 μC m-2 K-1. This allowed us to harvest waste heat energy using a pyroelectric nanogenerator (PyG) device of 1, a relatively unexplored area for molecular complexes.
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