Nature Communications (May 2019)

Triboelectric micromotors actuated by ultralow frequency mechanical stimuli

  • Hang Yang,
  • Yaokun Pang,
  • Tianzhao Bu,
  • Wenbo Liu,
  • Jianjun Luo,
  • Dongdong Jiang,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Zhong Lin Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10298-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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High-speed electrostatic micromotors with low energy consumption are attractive for small-scale electromechanical systems, but applications are limited by power supplies. Here the authors use a triboelectric nanogenerator for actuation of a high-speed micromotor by low-frequency mechanical stimuli.