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

ABSTRACT: Triboelectric nanogenerators have been invented as a highly efficient, cost-effective and easy scalable energy-harvesting technology for converting ambient mechanical energy into electricity. Four basic working modes have been demonstrated, each of which has different designs to accommodate the corresponding mechanical triggering conditions. A common standard is thus required to quantify the performance of the triboelectric nanogenerators so that their outputs can be compared and evaluated. Here we report figure-of-merits for defining the performance of a triboelectric nanogenerator, which is composed of a structural figure-of-merit related to the structure and a material figure of merit that is the square of the surface charge density. The structural figure-of-merit is derived and simulat

SUBMITTER: Zi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4598564 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature