Freestanding Flag-Type Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Harvesting High-Altitude Wind Energy from Arbitrary Directions

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1780-1787

  Zhao, Zhenfu ^a   Pu, Xiong ^a   Du, Chunhua ^a   Li, Linxuan ^a   Jiang, Chunyan ^a   Hu, Weiguo ^a   Wang, Zhong Lin ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

arbitrary direction; high altitude platform; triboelectric nanogenerator; wind energy

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; ELECTROSTATICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); TRIBOELECTRICITY; WEAVING; WIND TURBINES;

ARBITRARY DIRECTION; CONTACT ELECTRIFICATION; CURRENT GENERATION; ELECTROSTATIC INDUCTION; HIGH ALTITUDE PLATFORM; HIGH ALTITUDE WINDS; NANOGENERATOR; PARALLEL CONNECTIONS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84960155799     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07157     Document Type: Article

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