Shape-Adaptive, Self-Healable Triboelectric Nanogenerator with Enhanced Performances by Soft Solid-Solid Contact Electrification

The viable application of soft electronics/robotics relies on the development of power devices which are desired to be flexible, deformable, or even self-healable. We report here a shape-adaptive, self-healable triboelectric nanogenerator (SS-TENG) for harvesting biomechanical energies. The use of a viscoelastic polymer, normally known as Silly Putty, as the electrification material and as the matrix of a carbon-nanotube-filled composite (CNT-putty) electrode endows the SS-TENG the capability of adapting to arbitrary irregular surfaces and instantaneous healing from mechanical damage (almost completely recovered in 3 min without extra stimuli). Furthermore, the output performances of the SS-TENG have also been significantly improved because (i) the ideal soft contact is achieved at the solid-solid interfaces for more effective contact electrification and (ii) the introduced cation dopants make the putty even more tribo-negative than polytetrafluoroethylene. The SS-TENG can be adhered to any curvy surface, tailored, and reshaped into arbitrary configurations and utilized as a power supply for small electronics, suggesting promising applications in soft electronics/robotics in the future.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

ACS nano - 13(2019), 8 vom: 27. Aug., Seite 8936-8945

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Yanghui [VerfasserIn]
Pu, Xiong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Mengmeng [VerfasserIn]
Kuang, Shuangyang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Panpan [VerfasserIn]
Hua, Qilin [VerfasserIn]
Cong, Zifeng [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Wenbin [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Weiguo [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zhong Lin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Putty
Self-healing
Shape-adaptive
Soft electronics
Triboelectric nanogenerators

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Date Revised 23.09.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acsnano.9b02690

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM298743760