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Miura folding based charge-excitation triboelectric nanogenerator for portable power supply

Show Author's Information Gui Li1,§,  Guanlin Liu1,2,§,  Wencong He1,  Li Long1,  Bangxing Li1,  Zhao Wang1,  Qian Tang1,  Wenlin Liu1( ),  Chenguo Hu1( )
Department of Applied Physics, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Smart MaterialsState Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing UniversityChongqing400044China
Center on Nanoenergy ResearchSchool of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi UniversityNanning530004China

§ Gui Li and Guanlin Liu contributed equally to this work.

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triboelectric nanogenerator, Miura folding, charge excitation, half-wave rectifier circuit
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Miniaturized mobile electronic devices have aroused great attention due to their convenience to daily life. However, they still face a problem that power supply from the conventional cell needs to be regularly charged or replaced. Portable electricity supply collecting energy from environment is highly desired. Herein, a highly flexible and stretchable Miura folding based triboelectric nanogenerator (MF-TENG) is prepared by using flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as a folding substrate with a double working side design, specifically one side as the main TENG (M-TENG) and other side as the excitation TENG (E-TENG). The E-TENG supplements charge to M-TENG by a half-wave rectifier circuit. This design increases the TENG working area and reduces its volume. The output performance of the TENG based on Miura folding with charge excitation called MF-CE-TENG is greatly boosted. The optimal output charge and maximum peak power of MF-CE-TENG achieves 1.54 μC and 5.17 mW at 1 Hz, respectively, which is 4.61 and 10.55 times as much as that of MF-TENG without charge excitation. To demonstrate its applications, the MF-CE-TENG is used to light up 456 LEDs brightly and charge a 100 μF capacitor to 6.07 V in 5 min. A calculator and a temperature-humidity sensor work normally powered by MF-CE-TENG with an energy management module. This work provides a new strategy to enhance the output energy of Miura folding TENG by applying a charge excitation mode for the first time, which might be an effective approach to be used in other TENGs.


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Miura folding based charge-excitation triboelectric nanogenerator for portable power supply

Show Author's information Gui Li1,§, Guanlin Liu1,2,§, Wencong He1, Li Long1, Bangxing Li1, Zhao Wang1, Qian Tang1, Wenlin Liu1( ), Chenguo Hu1( )
Department of Applied Physics, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Smart MaterialsState Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing UniversityChongqing400044China
Center on Nanoenergy ResearchSchool of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi UniversityNanning530004China

§ Gui Li and Guanlin Liu contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Miniaturized mobile electronic devices have aroused great attention due to their convenience to daily life. However, they still face a problem that power supply from the conventional cell needs to be regularly charged or replaced. Portable electricity supply collecting energy from environment is highly desired. Herein, a highly flexible and stretchable Miura folding based triboelectric nanogenerator (MF-TENG) is prepared by using flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as a folding substrate with a double working side design, specifically one side as the main TENG (M-TENG) and other side as the excitation TENG (E-TENG). The E-TENG supplements charge to M-TENG by a half-wave rectifier circuit. This design increases the TENG working area and reduces its volume. The output performance of the TENG based on Miura folding with charge excitation called MF-CE-TENG is greatly boosted. The optimal output charge and maximum peak power of MF-CE-TENG achieves 1.54 μC and 5.17 mW at 1 Hz, respectively, which is 4.61 and 10.55 times as much as that of MF-TENG without charge excitation. To demonstrate its applications, the MF-CE-TENG is used to light up 456 LEDs brightly and charge a 100 μF capacitor to 6.07 V in 5 min. A calculator and a temperature-humidity sensor work normally powered by MF-CE-TENG with an energy management module. This work provides a new strategy to enhance the output energy of Miura folding TENG by applying a charge excitation mode for the first time, which might be an effective approach to be used in other TENGs.

Keywords: triboelectric nanogenerator, Miura folding, charge excitation, half-wave rectifier circuit

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Received: 09 December 2020
Revised: 18 January 2021
Accepted: 10 February 2021
Published: 23 March 2021
Issue date: November 2021

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52073037), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2019CDXZWL001) and Chongqing graduate tutor team construction project (No. ydstd1832).

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