Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Quantifying contact status and the air-breakdown model of charge-excitation triboelectric nanogenerators to maximize charge density

  • Yike Liu,
  • Wenlin Liu,
  • Zhao Wang,
  • Wencong He,
  • Qian Tang,
  • Yi Xi,
  • Xue Wang,
  • Hengyu Guo,
  • Chenguo Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15368-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Surface charge density is a key factor for developing high performance triboelectric nanogenerators. Herein, authors establish criteria to quantitatively evaluate the contact efficiency and air breakdown model on charge excitation triboelectric nanogenerators to maximize output charge density.