Lawn Structured Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Scavenging Sweeping Wind Energy on Rooftops

Lei Zhang; Binbin Zhang; Jun Chen; Long Jin; Weili Deng; Junfeng Tang; Haitao Zhang; Hong Pan; Minhao Zhu; Weiqing Yang; Zhong Lin Wang

doi:10.1002/adma.201504462

Lawn Structured Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Scavenging Sweeping Wind Energy on Rooftops

Adv Mater. 2016 Feb 24;28(8):1650-6. doi: 10.1002/adma.201504462. Epub 2015 Dec 15.

Authors

Lei Zhang¹, Binbin Zhang¹, Jun Chen², Long Jin¹, Weili Deng¹, Junfeng Tang¹, Haitao Zhang¹, Hong Pan¹, Minhao Zhu¹, Weiqing Yang¹, Zhong Lin Wang^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China.
² School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
³ Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China.

PMID: 26669627
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504462

Abstract

A novel triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is designed, based on flexible and transparent vertical-strip arrays, for environmental wind-energy harvesting. Given the low cost, simple structure, and wide applicability, the TENGs present a green alternative to traditional methods used for large-scale wind-energy harvesting.

Keywords: nanogenerators; triboelectric generators; vertical-strip arrays; wind energy.