Noncontact free-rotating disk triboelectric nanogenerator as a sustainable energy harvester and self-powered mechanical sensor

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3031-3038

  Lin, Long ^a   Wang, Sihong ^a   Niu, Simiao ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Xie, Yannan ^a   Wang, Zhong Lin ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

active sensor; high stability; noncontact; rotational mechanical energy; self powered system; triboelectric nanogenerator

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SENSOR; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; NANOGENERATOR; NON-CONTACT; SELF-POWERED SYSTEMS;

ENERGY HARVESTING; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ROTATING DISKS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84896817510     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am405637s     Document Type: Article

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