Recent advances in triboelectric nanogenerators: from technological progress to commercial applications

D Choi, Y Lee, ZH Lin, S Cho, M Kim, CK Ao, S Soh… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Serious climate changes and energy-related environmental problems are currently critical
issues in the world. In order to reduce carbon emissions and save our environment …

Promoting smart cities into the 5G era with multi-field Internet of Things (IoT) applications powered with advanced mechanical energy harvesters

L Liu, X Guo, C Lee - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Along with the arrival of the 5G era, sustainable and renewable energy supplies have
become urgent demands towards plentifully distributed devices utilized for constructing …

Application, challenge and perspective of triboelectric nanogenerator as micro-nano energy and self-powered biosystem

J Shen, B Li, Y Yang, Z Yang, X Liu, KC Lim… - Biosensors and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a new type of energy harvesting technology, the triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) can
convert distributed energy into electrical energy. It is widely used in various fields such as …

A battery-free wireless body area network towards state perception under all-weather conditions

X Liu, Y Zhang, X Wang, J Zhang, K Dong, F Wang… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The integration of energy harvesting and sensing is core to the enhancement of intelligence
and sustainability of wireless body area networks (WBANs). Much of the harvested energy …

A review of energy supply for biomachine hybrid robots

Z Ma, J Zhao, L Yu, M Yan, L Liang, X Wu… - Cyborg and Bionic …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Biomachine hybrid robots have been proposed for important scenarios, such as wilderness
rescue, ecological monitoring, and hazardous area surveying. The energy supply unit used …

Triboelectric nanogenerators for self‐powered wound healing

X Xiao, X Xiao, A Nashalian, A Libanori… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wound healing, one of the most complex processes in the human body, involves the spatial
and temporal synchronization of a variety of cell types with distinct roles. Slow or nonhealing …

Engineering an integrated electroactive dressing to accelerate wound healing and monitor noninvasively progress of healing

N Nguyen, ZH Lin, SR Barman, C Korupalli, JY Cheng… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditional wound dressings neither promote the cellular activities that heal wounds nor
support the monitoring of the progress of that healing. This work develops an engineered …

A high-performance mini-generator with average power of 2 W for human motion energy harvesting and wearable electronics applications

J Hou, S Qian, X Hou, J Zhang, H Wu, Y Guo… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The sustainability of power supply for mobile electronic devices is a problem that needs to
be solved urgently. The energy from human motion is an optimal solution for this problem …

Bioinspired triboelectric soft robot driven by mechanical energy

Y Liu, B Chen, W Li, L Zu, W Tang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A sustainable power source is a key technical challenge for practical applications of
electrically responsive soft robots, especially the required voltage is over several thousand …

Friction-dominated carrier excitation and transport mechanism for GaN-based direct-current triboelectric nanogenerators

Y Chen, Z Zhang, Z Wang, T Bu, S Dong… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The semiconductor triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) based on the tribovoltaic effect has
the characteristics of direct current and high current density, but the energy transfer and …