Triboelectric Nanogenerator: A Foundation of the Energy for the New Era

By Changsheng Wu, A. Wang, Wenbo Ding, Hengyu Guo, Zhong Lin Wang. Advanced Energy Materials, 2018

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As the world is marching into the era of the internet of things (IoTs) and artificial intelligence, the most vital development for hardware is a multifunctional array of sensing systems, which forms the foundation of the fourth industrial revolution toward an intelligent world. Given the need for mobility of these multitudes of sensors, the success of the IoTs calls for distributed energy sources, which can be provided by solar, thermal, wind, and mechanical triggering/vibrations. The triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) for mechanical energy harvesting developed by Z.L. Wang's group is one of the best choices for this energy for the new era, since triboelectrification is a universal and ubiquitous effect with an abundant choice of materials. The development of self‐powered active sensors enabled by TENGs is revolutionary compared to externally powered passive sensors, similar to the advance from wired to wireless communication. In this paper, the fundamental theory, experiments, and applications of TENGs are reviewed as a foundation of the energy for the new era with four major application fields: micro/nano power sources, self‐powered sensors, large‐scale blue energy, and direct high‐voltage power sources. A roadmap is proposed for the research and commercialization of TENG in the next 10 years.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Polymers and Plastics

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Citations in the corpus

• Study of thin film blue energy harvester based on triboelectric nanogenerator and seashore IoT applications (2019, background): “nanogenerator (D-TENG), and the D-TENG belongs to the singleelectrode mode of four basic working modes [18,19].”