Serious climate changes and energy-related environmental problems are currently critical
issues in the world. In order to reduce carbon emissions and save our environment …

Power supply is one of the bottlenecks to realizing untethered wearable electronics, soft
robotics and the internet of things. Flexible self-charging power sources integrate energy …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to accelerate the construction of smart cities.
However, it requires more than 30 billion sensors to realize the IoT vision, posing great …

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 …

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of sensors utilized for
the IoT is expected to exceed 200 billion by 2025. Thus, sustainable energy supplies without …

The shortage of fossil energy and global climate change have driven humankind to find a
new type of renewable, accessible, and clean energy. The triboelectric nanogenerator …

Along with the arrival of the 5G era, sustainable and renewable energy supplies have
become urgent demands towards plentifully distributed devices utilized for constructing …

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), a nascent field in energy conversion technologies,
provide a novel approach to producing electrical energy from mechanical motion in the …

The rapid development of Internet of Things and artificial intelligence brings increasing
attention on the harvesting of distributed energy by using triboelectric nanogenerator …

Non-contact triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) enabled for both high conversion efficiency
and durability is appropriate to harvest random micro energy owing to the advantage of low …