Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Boosting output performance of sliding mode triboelectric nanogenerator by charge space-accumulation effect

  • Wencong He,
  • Wenlin Liu,
  • Jie Chen,
  • Zhao Wang,
  • Yike Liu,
  • Xianjie Pu,
  • Hongmei Yang,
  • Qian Tang,
  • Huake Yang,
  • Hengyu Guo,
  • Chenguo Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18086-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

Read online

Improving the output performance of sliding mode triboelectric nanogenerators is a great challenge. Herein, a space charge accumulation effect, based on alternating shielding and blank-tribo areas, is demonstrated and effectively promotes charge density output.