Recent advances in triboelectric nanogenerators: energy harvest and other applications

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent progress in triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG), highlighting their diverse applications in energy harvesting, sensing, healthcare, and medical monitoring, despite current manufacturing challenges.

Contribution

It provides a concise summary of the latest developments and application progress of TENG, offering insights for future expansion and device design.

Findings

TENG shows promising performance in energy harvesting and sensing.

Applications extend to healthcare and medical monitoring.

Despite manufacturing challenges, TENG's potential continues to grow.

Abstract

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) with triboelectrification and electrostatic induction effects have attracted wide attention in recent decades, for its diversified application scenarios such as power generation, sensing, and so on. Undoubtedly, although still lacks standardized large-scale production, TENG has demonstrated good performance and increasingly promising prospects in fields such as energy harvest, healthcare, and medical monitoring. Here, this minireview provides a brief summary on the latest application progress of TENG, which may offer insights for expanding application fields and developing design concepts for TENG based devices.