Facile Fabrication of Micro-Nano Structured Triboelectric Nanogenerator with High Electric Output

Feifei Zhang; Baozhang Li; Jianming Zheng; Chunye Xu

doi:10.1186/s11671-015-1001-5

Facile Fabrication of Micro-Nano Structured Triboelectric Nanogenerator with High Electric Output

Nanoscale Res Lett. 2015 Dec;10(1):1001. doi: 10.1186/s11671-015-1001-5. Epub 2015 Jul 21.

Authors

Feifei Zhang¹, Baozhang Li, Jianming Zheng, Chunye Xu

Affiliation

¹ CAS Key Lab of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

In this article, a new method is used to fabricate a high-performance triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), which is convenient and cost-effective. A polyformaldehyde (POM) film with novel structures is prepared through electrospinning and is combined with a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) film to assemble micro-nano structured TENG. The short-circuit current (I s) and open-circuit voltage (V o) of the TENG are up to 0.4343 mA and 236.8 V, respectively, and no significant change is observed by applying different frequencies of external impact forces from 1 to 10 Hz. Finally, we successfully drive an electrochromic device (ECD) directly using TENG within just 2 min for the first time.