Polyurethanes synthesized using biomass-derived furan diols as sustainable triboelectric materials

June Young Jang; Youngmin Byun; Sijin You; Seunghun Kim; Dong-Min Lee; Sang-Woo Kim; Seung Uk Son

doi:10.1039/d4cc03073g

Polyurethanes synthesized using biomass-derived furan diols as sustainable triboelectric materials

Chem Commun (Camb). 2024 Sep 5;60(72):9741-9744. doi: 10.1039/d4cc03073g.

Authors

June Young Jang¹, Youngmin Byun^{2

3}, Sijin You¹, Seunghun Kim¹, Dong-Min Lee^{2

3}, Sang-Woo Kim^{2

3}, Seung Uk Son¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea. [email protected].
² Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea. [email protected].
³ Center for Human-oriented Triboelectric Energy Harvesting, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea.

PMID: 39082081
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc03073g

Abstract

This work shows that various polyurethanes (FPUs) prepared using biomass-derived furan diols can be applied as promising tribopositive materials. The elastic FPUs having appropriate glass transition temperature (T_g) could be incorporated into polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fabrics to form FPU/PET films. The optimal FPU-4/PET film showed promising triboelectric performance with output voltages (V_p-p) up to 405 V and a maximum power density (P_max) of 32 mW cm^-2.