Integration of micro-supercapacitors with triboelectric nanogenerators for a flexible self-charging power unit

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3934-3943

  Luo, Jianjun ^a   Fan, Feng Ru ^a,b   Jiang, Tao ^a   Wang, Zhiwei ^a   Tang, Wei ^a   Zhang, Cuiping ^a   Liu, Mengmeng ^a   Cao, Guozhong ^a,c   Wang, Zhong Lin ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

energy harvesting; energy storage; micro supercapacitor; self charging; triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946945091     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0894-8     Document Type: Article

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