On the origin of contact-electrification

ZL Wang, AC Wang - Materials Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Although contact electrification (triboelectrification)(CE) has been documented since 2600
years ago, its scientific understanding remains inconclusive, unclear, and un-unified. This …

From contact electrification to triboelectric nanogenerators

ZL Wang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Although the contact electrification (CE)(or usually called'triboelectrification') effect has been
known for over 2600 years, its scientific mechanism still remains debated after decades …

Smart textiles for electricity generation

G Chen, Y Li, M Bick, J Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Textiles have been concomitant of human civilization for thousands of years. With the
advances in chemistry and materials, integrating textiles with energy harvesters will provide …

Triboelectric nanogenerators as new energy technology for self-powered systems and as active mechanical and chemical sensors

ZL Wang - ACS nano, 2013 - ACS Publications
Triboelectrification is an effect that is known to each and every one probably since ancient
Greek time, but it is usually taken as a negative effect and is avoided in many technologies …

Triboelectric nanogenerators as new energy technology and self-powered sensors–Principles, problems and perspectives

ZL Wang - Faraday discussions, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Triboelectrification is one of the most common effects in our daily life, but it is usually taken
as a negative effect with very limited positive applications. Here, we invented a triboelectric …

Micro-cable structured textile for simultaneously harvesting solar and mechanical energy

J Chen, Y Huang, N Zhang, H Zou, R Liu, C Tao, X Fan… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
Develo** lightweight, flexible, foldable and sustainable power sources with simple
transport and storage remains a challenge and an urgent need for the advancement of next …

Reviving vibration energy harvesting and self-powered sensing by a triboelectric nanogenerator

J Chen, ZL Wang - Joule, 2017 - cell.com
Vibration energy harvesting and sensing is a traditional and growing research field in which
various working mechanisms and designs have been developed for an improved …

Strategies for effectively harvesting wind energy based on triboelectric nanogenerators

Z Ren, L Wu, Y Pang, W Zhang, R Yang - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind energy has played a reasonable proportion in the current energy structure, extracting
energy from wind sources attracts extensive attention in the era of global carbon neutrality …

A bionic stretchable nanogenerator for underwater sensing and energy harvesting

Y Zou, P Tan, B Shi, H Ouyang, D Jiang, Z Liu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Soft wearable electronics for underwater applications are of interest, but depend on the
development of a waterproof, long-term sustainable power source. In this work, we report a …

Hybrid energy harvesters: toward sustainable energy harvesting

H Ryu, HJ Yoon, SW Kim - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, sustainable green energy harvesting systems have been receiving great attention
for their potential use in self‐powered smart wireless sensor network (WSN) systems. In …