Multiple‐Frequency High‐Output Triboelectric Nanogenerator Based on a Water Balloon for All‐Weather Water Wave Energy Harvesting

By Kequan Xia, Jiangming Fu, Zhiwei Xu. Advanced Energy Materials, 2020

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Energy and the environment are two of the main issues facing the world today. As a consequence abundant renewable green energy sources such as wave energy, have become hot topics. Here, a multiple‐frequency triboelectric nanogenerator based on the water balloon (WB‐TENG) is proposed for harvesting water wave energy in any direction. Owing to the high elasticity of the water balloon, the WB‐TENG can realize a multiple‐frequency response to low‐frequency external mechanical simulations to generate high‐frequency electrical output. In addition, the water balloon can achieve self‐support without any additional supporting structure because of its tension, to make WB‐TENG still produce electrical output under slight vibration, which can also bring high energy conversion efficiency. Moreover, the fabricated WB‐TENG generates a maximum instantaneous short‐circuit current and an open‐circuit voltage of 147 µA and 1221 V, respectively. Most noteworthy, under the same conditions, the total transferred charge of WB‐TENG is 28 times than that of traditional TENG based on double plate structure during one working cycle. Therefore, this design can provide an effective way to promote the development of TENGs in blue energy.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics

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Gravity triboelectric nanogenerator for the steady harvesting of natural wind energy (2021, background): “TENG has the characteristics of low cost, easy fabrication, and versatile choices of materials and structures [1,13] and is widely employed in multiple fields of harvesting mechanical energy from the environment [14–17], such as in the harvesting of energy from vibrations [18,19], acoustic waves [20”