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Waterbomb-origami inspired triboelectric nanogenerator for smart pavement-integrated traffic monitoring

Show Author's Information Yafeng Pang1,  Xingyi Zhu1( ),  Ying Yu2,  Shuainian Liu3,  Yu Chen4,  Yi Feng4
Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China
School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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triboelectric nanogenerator, waterbomb-origami, smart pavement, traffic monitoring
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Pang Y, Zhu X, Yu Y, et al. Waterbomb-origami inspired triboelectric nanogenerator for smart pavement-integrated traffic monitoring. Nano Research, 2022, 15(6): 5450-5460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4152-6
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With a rapid development of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), traffic monitoring has gained increasing attention. Here, we present a new kind of waterbomb-origami-inspired triboelectric nanogenerator (WO-TENG) as a traffic monitoring system to integrate smart pavement with lightweight, cost-effective, excellent deformability, flexibility, and self-rebounding properties. The electrical performance is significantly improved by more than 67% compared with current origami-based TENG, and multi tribo-pairs have great synchronicity. The fully-packaged self-driven WO-TENG is further developed to integrate smart pavement, which can successfully decouple the influence of vehicle speed and weight on the sensing accuracy. This phenomenon demonstrates the feasibility and stability of the WO-TENG for traffic monitoring. Independently of the voltage amplitude and time interval electrical wave, vehicle speed, number of vehicles, and types of vehicles can be further evaluated accurately. This work can not only address the challenge of traditional traffic monitoring system, but also promote the development of TENG based self-powered sensors in ITSs.


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Waterbomb-origami inspired triboelectric nanogenerator for smart pavement-integrated traffic monitoring

Show Author's information Yafeng Pang1, Xingyi Zhu1( ), Ying Yu2, Shuainian Liu3, Yu Chen4, Yi Feng4
Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China
School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

Abstract

With a rapid development of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), traffic monitoring has gained increasing attention. Here, we present a new kind of waterbomb-origami-inspired triboelectric nanogenerator (WO-TENG) as a traffic monitoring system to integrate smart pavement with lightweight, cost-effective, excellent deformability, flexibility, and self-rebounding properties. The electrical performance is significantly improved by more than 67% compared with current origami-based TENG, and multi tribo-pairs have great synchronicity. The fully-packaged self-driven WO-TENG is further developed to integrate smart pavement, which can successfully decouple the influence of vehicle speed and weight on the sensing accuracy. This phenomenon demonstrates the feasibility and stability of the WO-TENG for traffic monitoring. Independently of the voltage amplitude and time interval electrical wave, vehicle speed, number of vehicles, and types of vehicles can be further evaluated accurately. This work can not only address the challenge of traditional traffic monitoring system, but also promote the development of TENG based self-powered sensors in ITSs.

Keywords: triboelectric nanogenerator, waterbomb-origami, smart pavement, traffic monitoring

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Received: 12 December 2021
Revised: 09 January 2022
Accepted: 11 January 2022
Published: 17 March 2022
Issue date: April 2022

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The work described in this paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51922079 and 61911530160), Key Research Project from Shanxi Transportation Holdings Group (No. 19-JKKJ-1), the Fund of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No. 20DZ2251900), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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