Original Article
  • Enhancing Mechanical and Electrical Performance through Polymer Blending: A Study on PVA-PDDA Blended Films for Triboelectric Energy Harvesting

  • Nebiyou Tadesse Debele*, Alemtsehay Tesfay Reda*, Yong Tae Park*†

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering, Myongji University, Yongin 17058, Korea

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Correspondence to

  • Yong Tae Park

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Myongji University, Yongin 17058, Korea

  • E-mail: ytpark@mju.ac.kr