More than energy harvesting – Combining triboelectric nanogenerator and flexible electronics technology for enabling novel micro-/nano-systems

By Qiongfeng Shi, Tianyiyi He, Chengkuo Lee. Nano Energy, 2019

288 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract The cutting-edge flexible electronics have experienced an explosion growth in the past decades, driving the traditional rigid devices evolve into soft, light, thin, durable and comfortable devices with more and more add-on functionalities. This rapid advancement of flexible electronics induces urgent demand of flexible and sustainable power source to overcome one of the bottlenecks of this technology. Triboelectric nanogenerators, since first invented in 2012, have become a promising energy harvesting technology during the past few years with significant development across the world, due to their diverse flexible/stretchable configurations, no material limitation and high output performance. Beyond energy harvesting, triboelectric nanogenerators can actively function as self-powered sensors and actuators to detect, monitor, interact and respond to the ambient changes induced by environment or human. These triboelectric devices can be key components to achieve sustainable functional systems. Therefore, the complementary marriage of triboelectric nanogenerators and flexible electronics yields a highly advanced technology to realize self-powered, flexible and smart functional systems. In this review, progress development of triboelectric nanogenerators and flexible electronics technology is firstly reviewed. Then various micro-/nano-systems enabled by the integration of triboelectric nanogenerators and flexible electronics technology are presented to show the feasibility to achieve sustainable functional systems. At the end, a future prospect of “all-in-one” multi-functional smart system is proposed under the same flexible platform towards convenient, miniaturized and sustainable micro-/nano-systems.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, Polymers and Plastics

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Xinge Guo
2. Chengkuo Lee
3. Long Liu
4. Tianyiyi He
5. Feng Wen
6. Qiongfeng Shi
7. Bowei Dong
8. Jianxiong Zhu

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Chengkuo Lee
2. Xinge Guo
3. Long Liu
4. Tianyiyi He
5. Feng Wen
6. Qiongfeng Shi
7. Jianxiong Zhu
8. Bowei Dong

In Polymers and Plastics

1. Chengkuo Lee
2. Xinge Guo
3. Long Liu
4. Tianyiyi He
5. Qiongfeng Shi
6. Feng Wen
7. Philippe Vachon
8. Yanqin Yang

Citations in the corpus

• Promoting smart cities into the 5G era with multi-field Internet of Things (IoT) applications powered with advanced mechanical energy harvesters (2021, background): “Through the above highlight research focus on triboelectric mechanism and the TENG, applying triboelectric in energy harvesting is an available and propagable technology [16,47,53,119 – 134].”
• Progress in TENG technology—A journey from energy harvesting to nanoenergy and nanosystem (2020, background): “Along the past few years, a large quantity of self-powered physical sensors have been developed by using diversified TENG configurations, including pressure/force, tactile, strain, bending, acceleration, and rotation sensors, and so on.(111-119) Here, several typical kinds of TENG-based self-powered”