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Nano Research 2022, 15(3): 2505-2511 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3764-6
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Natural polymers based triboelectric nanogenerator for harvesting biomechanical energy and monitoring human motion

Show Author's Information Hong Chen1,2,§,  Qixin Lu1,2,§,  Xia Cao2,3( ),  Ning Wang4( ),  Zhong Lin Wang2,5( )
Center on Nanoenergy Research, School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Center for Green Innovation, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0245, USA

§ Hong Chen and Qixin Lu contributed equally to this work.

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Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has been proved as a promising energy harvester in recent years, but the challenges of exploring economically triboelectric materials still exist and have aroused interests of many researchers. In this paper, chitosan-silk fibroin-airlaid paper composite film (CSA film) was fabricated and then the CSA film based-triboelectric nanogenerator (CSA-TENG) was constructed, which presents an opportunity for natural polymers to be applied in triboelectric materials. Due to the excellent electron donating ability of CSA film, the CSA-TENG can harvest environmental energy with a high efficiency. More importantly, the as-designed CSA film based dual-electrode triboelectric nanogenerator (CSA-D-TENG) is successfully assembled into hand clapper and trampoline to harvest mechanical energies generated by human bodies, it is also capable of monitoring human movement while harvesting biomechanical energies. This work provides a simple and environmental-friendly way to develop TENG for biomechanical energies harvesting and human motion monitoring.


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Natural polymers based triboelectric nanogenerator for harvesting biomechanical energy and monitoring human motion

Show Author's information Hong Chen1,2,§, Qixin Lu1,2,§, Xia Cao2,3( ), Ning Wang4( ), Zhong Lin Wang2,5( )
Center on Nanoenergy Research, School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Center for Green Innovation, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0245, USA

§ Hong Chen and Qixin Lu contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has been proved as a promising energy harvester in recent years, but the challenges of exploring economically triboelectric materials still exist and have aroused interests of many researchers. In this paper, chitosan-silk fibroin-airlaid paper composite film (CSA film) was fabricated and then the CSA film based-triboelectric nanogenerator (CSA-TENG) was constructed, which presents an opportunity for natural polymers to be applied in triboelectric materials. Due to the excellent electron donating ability of CSA film, the CSA-TENG can harvest environmental energy with a high efficiency. More importantly, the as-designed CSA film based dual-electrode triboelectric nanogenerator (CSA-D-TENG) is successfully assembled into hand clapper and trampoline to harvest mechanical energies generated by human bodies, it is also capable of monitoring human movement while harvesting biomechanical energies. This work provides a simple and environmental-friendly way to develop TENG for biomechanical energies harvesting and human motion monitoring.

Keywords: triboelectric nanogenerator, human motion monitoring, natural polymers, biomechanical energies

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Received: 11 June 2021
Revised: 20 July 2021
Accepted: 21 July 2021
Published: 27 August 2021
Issue date: March 2022

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This work was financially supported by the National Key R&D Project from Ministry of Science and Technology (Nos. 2016YFA0202702 and 2016YFA0202701), and the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS (No. ZDBS-LY-DQC025). Patents have been filed to protect the reported inventions.

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