Wearable Triboelectric Nanogenerator from Waste Materials for Autonomous Information Transmission via Morse Code.

ABSTRACT: Electronic waste produced by plastic, toxic, and semiconducting components of existing electronic devices is dramatically increasing environmental pollution. To overcome these issues, the use of eco-friendly materials for designing such devices is attaining much attention. This current work presents a recycled material-based triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) made of plastic waste and carbon-coated paper wipes (C@PWs), in which the PWs are also collected from a waste bin. The resultant C@PW-based TENG is then used for powering low-power electronic devices and, later, to generate a Morse code from a wearable for autonomous communication. In this application, the end users decode the Morse code from a customized LabVIEW program and read the transmitted signal. With further redesigning, a 9-s

SUBMITTER: Dudem B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9007404 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature