Coupled Triboelectric Nanogenerator Networks for Efficient Water Wave Energy Harvesting.
By Liang Xu, Tao Jiang, Pei Lin, Jiajia Shao, Chuan He, Wei Zhong, X. Chen, Zhong Lin Wang. ACS Nano, 2018
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Water wave energy is a promising clean energy source, which is abundant but hard to scavenge economically. Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) networks provide an effective approach toward massive harvesting of water wave energy in oceans. In this work, a coupling design in TENG networks for such purposes is reported. The charge output of the rationally linked units is over 10 times of that without linkage. TENG networks of three different connecting methods are fabricated and show better performance for the ones with flexible connections. The network is based on an optimized ball-shell structured TENG unit with high responsivity to small agitations. The dynamic behavior of single and multiple TENG units is also investigated comprehensively to fully understand their performance in water. The study shows that a rational design on the linkage among the units could be an effective strategy for TENG clusters to operate collaboratively for reaching a higher performance.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics
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- Recent progress in blue energy harvesting for powering distributed sensors in ocean (2021, background): “Therefore, researches has proposed the construction of TENG as an effective approach for blue energy harvesting and marine environment monitoring [70, 156, 158, 164, 189, 200, 201].”
- Promoting smart cities into the 5G era with multi-field Internet of Things (IoT) applications powered with advanced mechanical energy harvesters (2021, background): “Moreover, the spherical devices can be easily assembled into a sphere network spreading out on the ocean surface [263 – 265].”
- Study of thin film blue energy harvester based on triboelectric nanogenerator and seashore IoT applications (2019, background): “2 increased due to more intimate contact [48].”