Standards and figure-of-merits for quantifying the performance of triboelectric nanogenerators

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zi, Yunlong ^a   Niu, Simiao ^a   Wang, Jie ^a   Wen, Zhen ^a   Tang, Wei ^b   Wang, Zhong Lin ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICITY; MACHINERY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POWER GENERATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARD (REGULATION); TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

ACCOMMODATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FIGURE OF MERIT; GENERATOR; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRIBOELECTRIC NANOGENERATOR;

EID: 84942627279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9376     Document Type: Article

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