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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Chem.
Sec. Green and Sustainable Chemistry
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fchem.2024.1538660
This article is part of the Research Topic Sustainable Design and Fabrication of Nanomaterials and Micro-Devices View all articles

Hybridized triboelectric nanogenerator for simultaneously scavenging droplet and wind energies

Provisionally accepted
Chaosheng Hu Chaosheng Hu 1,2Chengmin Bao Chengmin Bao 3*Yang Liu Yang Liu 3*Yingzhan Yan Yingzhan Yan 1,2*Yanan Bai Yanan Bai 4*Qian Xu Qian Xu 1,2*
  • 1 Information Science Academy, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Beijing, China
  • 2 集成电路与微系统国家重点实验室, 中国，北京, China
  • 3 呼和浩特民族学院化学与环境工程学院, 中国，北京, China
  • 4 School of Physical Science Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Region, China

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    Triboelectric nanogenerators were widely favored by academics due to their simple manufacturing processes and low costs, as well as exhibit extremely diverse forms of energy harvesting. However, further research is still needed to developed new structures to accommodate more applications and perform more better. Here, we developed a triboelectric nanogenerator DW-TENG that harvesting both droplet energy and wind energy. The device consisted of a droplet driven TENG portion and wind driven TENG portion who share an intermediate electrode between them. The device had a good hybridized performance, with an output voltage of up to 95.10 V, a maximum average power of 18.15 μW, a power generation energy of 181.54 μJ in 10 s, and charging a 1 μF capacitor to 43.29 V in 120 s under the simulated environment of medium rain with medium breeze. This work can harvest dispersed wind energy and droplet energy in the environment, which will provide a new idea and possibility for online monitoring and IoT system construction in remote areas.

    Keywords: Wind, Droplet, triboelectric nanogenerator, Hybridized, Energy

    Received: 03 Dec 2024; Accepted: 17 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Hu, Bao, Liu, Yan, Bai and Xu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Chengmin Bao, 呼和浩特民族学院化学与环境工程学院, 中国，北京, China
    Yang Liu, 呼和浩特民族学院化学与环境工程学院, 中国，北京, China
    Yingzhan Yan, Information Science Academy, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Beijing, China
    Yanan Bai, School of Physical Science Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, Guangxi Zhuang Region, China
    Qian Xu, Information Science Academy, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Beijing, China

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