Hierarchical Honeycomb-Structured Electret/Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Biomechanical and Morphing Wing Energy Harvesting

• 作者: Kai Tao Zhensheng Chen Haiping Yi Ruirong Zhang Qiang Shen Jin Wu Lihua Tang Kangqi Fan Yongqing Fu Jianmin Miao Weizheng Yuan
• 来源期刊: 纳微快报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（8）
• 页码范围: 136-151
• 页数: 16页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Flexible, compact, lightweight and sustainable power sources are indispensable for modern wearable and personal electron-ics and small-unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Hierarchical hon-eycomb has the unique merits of compact mesostructures, excellent energy absorption properties and considerable weight to strength ratios. Herein, a honeycomb-inspired triboelectric nanogenerator (h-TENG) is proposed for biomechanical and UAV morphing wing energy har-vesting based on contact triboelectrification wavy surface of cellular honeycomb structure. The wavy surface comprises a multilayered thin film structure (combining polyethylene terephthalate, silver nanowires and fluorinated ethylene propylene) fabricated through high-temperature thermoplastic molding and wafer-level bonding process. With superior synchronization of large amounts of energy generation units with honeycomb cells, the manufactured h-TENG prototype produces the maximum instantaneous open-circuit voltage, short-circuit current and output power of 1207 V, 68.5 μA and 12.4 mW, respectively, corresponding to a remarkable peak power density of 0.275 mW cm-3 (or 2.48 mW g-1) under hand pressing excitations. Attributed tothe excellent elastic property of self-rebounding honeycomb structure, the flexible and transparent h-TENG can be easily pressed, bent and integrated into shoes for real-time insole plantar pressure mapping. The lightweight and compact h-TENG is further installed into a morphing wing of small UAVs for efficiently converting the flapping energy of ailerons into electricity for the first time. This research demonstrates this new conceptualizing single h-TENG device's versatility and viability for broad-range real-world application scenarios.