Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Conjunction of triboelectric nanogenerator with induction coils as wireless power sources and self-powered wireless sensors

  • Chi Zhang,
  • Jinkai Chen,
  • Weipeng Xuan,
  • Shuyi Huang,
  • Bin You,
  • Wenjun Li,
  • Lingling Sun,
  • Hao Jin,
  • Xiaozhi Wang,
  • Shurong Dong,
  • Jikui Luo,
  • A. J. Flewitt,
  • Zhong Lin Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13653-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Renewable energy based wireless power transfer is challenging. Here the authors show a resonant-coupled triboelectric nanogenerator as a wireless power source and have further utilized this system to explore two fully self-powered wireless chipless sensors.