Flexible self-charging power sources

R Liu, ZL Wang, K Fukuda, T Someya - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Power supply is one of the bottlenecks to realizing untethered wearable electronics, soft
robotics and the internet of things. Flexible self-charging power sources integrate energy …

Recent advances in stretchable, wearable and bio-compatible triboelectric nanogenerators

M Haghayegh, R Cao, F Zabihi… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENGs) can convert mechanical energy into electricity and
harvest this energy. It is critical to highlight and study the material selection, structure, and …

Achieving Remarkable Charge Density via Self‐Polarization of Polar High‐k Material in a Charge‐Excitation Triboelectric Nanogenerator

H Wu, W He, C Shan, Z Wang, S Fu, Q Tang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Boosting output charge density is top priority for achieving high‐performance triboelectric
nanogenerators (TENGs). The charge‐excitation strategy is demonstrated to be a superior …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on nanogenerators and piezotronics

P Basset, SP Beeby, C Bowen, ZJ Chew, A Delbani… - APL materials, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) was first introduced by using piezoelectric nanowires
for converting tiny mechanical energy into electric power. 1 Research in nanogenerators has …

Employing a MEMS plasma switch for conditioning high-voltage kinetic energy harvesters

H Zhang, F Marty, X Xia, Y Zi, T Bourouina… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Triboelectric nanogenerators have attracted wide attention due to their promising
capabilities of scavenging the ambient environmental mechanical energy. However, efficient …

A universal power management strategy based on novel sound‐driven triboelectric nanogenerator and its fully self‐powered wireless system applications

Z Wang, Y Wu, W Jiang, Q Liu, X Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), the power supply to trillions of IoT nodes
has become a serious challenge. It is of significant importance to propose a rational power …

A roller-bearing-based triboelectric nanosensor for freight train synergistic maintenance in smart transportation

Z Fang, Z Zhou, M Yi, Z Zhang, X Luo, A Ahmed - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Rail freight is a vital part of global economic development. The hunting instability of freight
trains seriously affects safety. The lack of electrical pipelines between freight trains makes …

A coupled piezo-triboelectric nanogenerator based on the electrification of biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate food packaging films

P Slobodian, R Olejnik, J Matyas, P Riha… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This study reports that biaxially oriented silica-filled polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET)
films used worldwide as food packaging materials combine unique dual electrification …

Tribovoltaic effect: Fundamental working mechanism and emerging applications

S Sriphan, N Vittayakorn - Materials Today Nano, 2023 - Elsevier
The triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is currently a promising technology operated by
coupling mechanisms between contact electrification and electrostatic induction for …