Abstract
Water-related energy is an inexhaustible and renewable energy resource in our environment, which has huge amount of energy and is not largely dictated by daytime and sunlight. The transparent characteristic plays a key role in practical applications for some devices designed for harvesting water-related energy. In this paper, a highly transparent triboelectric nanogenerator (T-TENG) was designed to harvest the electrostatic energy from flowing water. The instantaneous output power density of the T-TENG is 11.56 mW/m2. Moreover, with the PTFE film acting as an antireflection coating, the maximum transmittance of the fabricated T-TENG is 87.4%, which is larger than that of individual glass substrate. The T-TENG can be integrated with silicon-based solar cell, building glass and car glass, which demonstrates its potential applications for harvesting waste water energy in our living environment and on smart home system and smart car system.
Highlights
Water-related energy is an inexhaustible and renewable energy resource in our environment, which has huge amount of energy and is not largely dictated by daytime and sunlight
The transparent triboelectric nanogenerator (T-triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG)) is structurally composed of a rectangular glass, fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) electrode and a PTFE film, where glass is selected for the substrates due to its decent strength, high transparency and good machinability
The fabrication process is straightforward without sophisticated equipments and processes, demonstrating that this approach can be utilized to prepare large-scale T-TENG which is very important for the T-TENG to achieve practical applications in our environment
Summary
Water-related energy is an inexhaustible and renewable energy resource in our environment, which has huge amount of energy and is not largely dictated by daytime and sunlight. A highly transparent triboelectric nanogenerator (T-TENG) was designed to harvest the electrostatic energy from flowing water. The triboelectric effect[16,17] is one of the most universal phenomena in our daily life, and it can explain most daily static electricity that generated from mechanical contact. It has been regarded as an undesirable effect for electronic systems due to the potential hazards. Energy conversion is achieved with the coupling of triboelectric effect and electrostatic induction: periodic contact and separation between materials that differed in polarity of triboelectricity yield a potential drop which will drive electrons to flow through an external load and produce continuous outputs. PTFE is positioned extremely negative in the triboelectric series[36] and is widely used in triboelectric nanogenerator
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