High Durability Sliding TENG with Enhanced Output Achieved by Capturing Multiple Region Charges for Harvesting Wind Energy

TL;DR

A durable triboelectric nanogenerator is developed to capture wind energy more efficiently and power remote devices.

Contribution

A dual output mode TENG is designed to capture dissipating charges and improve output performance and durability.

Findings

The device achieves a 139% improvement in charge transferring rate compared to traditional devices.

It reaches a charge density of 0.847 mC m−2, 2.39 times higher than single mode devices.

The device maintains 95.7% performance after over 271,000 cycles and can power remote road signs.

Abstract

A dual output mode triboelectric nanogenerator for capturing multiple regions charges is proposed.Achieving a 139% improvement in charge transferring rate compared to traditional device.A charge density of 846.7 μC m−2 is achieved based on microscale dielectric material.The device can supply power for remote road signs under wind energy.

A dual output mode triboelectric nanogenerator for capturing multiple regions charges is proposed.

Achieving a 139% improvement in charge transferring rate compared to traditional device.

A charge density of 846.7 μC m−2 is achieved based on microscale dielectric material.

The device can supply power for remote road signs under wind energy.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40820-025-02043-1.

Improving the electric output and durability of triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) remains a great challenge. In sliding-mode TENG, surface charge dissipation and charge leakage caused by the volume effect result in serious energy waste. In this work, a durable dual output mode TENG (DDO-TENG), which includes alteranting current and direct current output modes, is designed to capture the dissipating charges in the surface of charge space accumulation area and the inner leakage charge in porous network to further improve the output performance of sliding TENGs. The output charge density of DDO-TENG reaches 0.847 mC m−2, which is 2.39 times as that of the single mode device. In addition, it has strong durability, remaining 95.7% after over 271 k cycles, and it can continuously power electronics by harvesting wind energy. This work provides a strategy for achieving the improvement on output performance and durability and expands the application of TENG.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40820-025-02043-1.

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