Diversiform sensors and sensing systems driven by triboelectric and piezoelectric nanogenerators

By Dongzhi Zhang, Dongyue Wang, Zhenyuan Xu, Xixi Zhang, Yan Yang, Jingyu Guo, Bao Zhang, Wenhao Zhao. 2021

185 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract Diversiform sensors and sensing devices with high reliability and self-powered features are critical in future wearable and flexible electronics of various fields. As a new energy harvesting technology, nanogenerator represented by triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) and piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) has attracted wide attention because it can effectively utilize renewable energy. Self-powered sensing technology based on TENG and PENG has been greatly developed because of its advantages over traditional power supply technology. The recent progress of TENG and PENG as self-powered smart sensors or power supply of sensing systems for a variety of applications has comprehensively summarized, such as environmental monitoring, biomedical application, and human–machine interface system. The latest achievements are also systematically reviewed from the aspects of advanced triboelectric/piezoelectric materials, implementation performance and prospective applications. The development of emerging nanomaterials makes TENG and PENG exhibit great application potential in the fields of nano-power sources, self-powered nano-devices, and micro-implantable chips. Moreover, some insights about future development trends and challenges of TENG and PENG in sensing fields were put forward. Triboelectric and piezoelectric nanogenerator has great prospective applications for the micro/nano energy and self-power of diversiform sensors and sensing systems as an emerging technology.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Qijun Sun
2. Xiaole Cao
3. Yao Xiong
4. Jia Sun
5. Zhongqiang Wang
6. Xiaoyin Xie

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Qijun Sun
2. Jia Sun

In Polymers and Plastics

1. Qijun Sun
2. Xiaole Cao
3. Yao Xiong
4. Jia Sun
5. Zhongqiang Wang
6. Xiaoyin Xie

Citations in the corpus

• Multidiscipline Applications of Triboelectric Nanogenerators for the Intelligent Era of Internet of Things (2022, methodology): “The first TENG was invented by Wang’s research group in 2012, the main goal of which was to collect micro/nanoscale mechanical energy [40].”