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 …

An advanced strategy to enhance TENG output: reducing triboelectric charge decay

C Wang, H Guo, P Wang, J Li, Y Sun… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to accelerate the construction of smart cities.
However, it requires more than 30 billion sensors to realize the IoT vision, posing great …

Standardized measurement of dielectric materials' intrinsic triboelectric charge density through the suppression of air breakdown

D Liu, L Zhou, S Cui, Y Gao, S Li, Z Zhao, Z Yi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Triboelectric charge density and energy density are two crucial factors to assess the output
capability of dielectric materials in a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG). However, they are …

Fabrication of triboelectric polymer films via repeated rheological forging for ultrahigh surface charge density

Z Liu, Y Huang, Y Shi, X Tao, H He, F Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Triboelectric polymer with high charge density is the foundation to promote the wide range of
applications of triboelectric nanogenerators. This work develops a method to produce …

Contact electrification at the liquid–solid interface

S Lin, X Chen, ZL Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Interfaces between a liquid and a solid (L–S) are the most important surface science in
chemistry, catalysis, energy, and even biology. Formation of an electric double layer (EDL) …

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 …

Selection rules of triboelectric materials for direct-current triboelectric nanogenerator

Z Zhao, L Zhou, S Li, D Liu, Y Li, Y Gao, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The rapid development of Internet of Things and artificial intelligence brings increasing
attention on the harvesting of distributed energy by using triboelectric nanogenerator …

High performance floating self-excited sliding triboelectric nanogenerator for micro mechanical energy harvesting

L Long, W Liu, Z Wang, W He, G Li, Q Tang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Non-contact triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) enabled for both high conversion efficiency
and durability is appropriate to harvest random micro energy owing to the advantage of low …

Polymer-based triboelectric nanogenerators: Materials, characterization, and applications

M Shanbedi, H Ardebili, A Karim - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), a nascent field in energy conversion technologies,
provide a novel approach to producing electrical energy from mechanical motion in the …

Achieving ultrahigh instantaneous power density of 10 MW/m2 by leveraging the opposite-charge-enhanced transistor-like triboelectric nanogenerator (OCT-TENG)

H Wu, S Wang, Z Wang, Y Zi - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Converting various types of ambient mechanical energy into electricity, triboelectric
nanogenerator (TENG) has attracted worldwide attention. Despite its ability to reach high …