scholarly journals Waste to energy: Facile, low-cost and environment-friendly triboelectric nanogenerators using recycled plastic and electronic wastes for self-powered portable electronics

2022 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1687-1695
Author(s):  
Muhammad Umaid Bukhari ◽  
Arshad Khan ◽  
Khawaja Qasim Maqbool ◽  
Adeel Arshad ◽  
Kashif Riaz ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Xu ◽  
Yongjiu Zou ◽  
Ardo Nashalian ◽  
Jun Chen

Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENGs) are a highly efficient approach for mechanical-to-electrical energy conversion based on the coupling effects of contact electrification and electrostatic induction. TENGs have been intensively applied as both sustainable power sources and self-powered active sensors with a collection of compelling features, including lightweight, low cost, flexible structures, extensive material selections, and high performances at low operating frequencies. The output performance of TENGs is largely determined by the surface triboelectric charges density. Thus, manipulating the surface chemical properties via appropriate modification methods is one of the most fundamental strategies to improve the output performances of TENGs. This article systematically reviews the recently reported chemical modification methods for building up high-performance TENGs from four aspects: functional groups modification, ion implantation and decoration, dielectric property engineering, and functional sublayers insertion. This review will highlight the contribution of surface chemistry to the field of triboelectric nanogenerators by assessing the problems that are in desperate need of solving and discussing the field's future directions.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 2951
Author(s):  
Yangming Liu ◽  
Jialin Liu ◽  
Lufeng Che

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have excellent properties in harvesting tiny environmental energy and self-powered sensor systems with extensive application prospects. Here, we report a high sensitivity self-powered wind speed sensor based on triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). The sensor consists of the upper and lower two identical TENGs. The output electrical signal of each TENG can be used to detect wind speed so that we can make sure that the measurement is correct by two TENGs. We study the influence of different geometrical parameters on its sensitivity and then select a set of parameters with a relatively good output electrical signal. The sensitivity of the wind speed sensor with this set of parameters is 1.79 μA/(m/s) under a wind speed range from 15 m/s to 25 m/s. The sensor can light 50 LEDs at the wind speed of 15 m/s. This work not only advances the development of self-powered wind sensor systems but also promotes the application of wind speed sensing.


2021 ◽  
Vol 188 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faezeh Ejehi ◽  
Raheleh Mohammadpour ◽  
Elham Asadian ◽  
Somayeh Fardindoost ◽  
Pezhman Sasanpour

2021 ◽  
pp. 2100975
Author(s):  
Xiao Xiao ◽  
Xiao Xiao ◽  
Ardo Nashalian ◽  
Alberto Libanori ◽  
Yunsheng Fang ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Araz Rajabi-Abhari ◽  
Jong-Nam Kim ◽  
Jeehee Lee ◽  
Rassoul Tabassian ◽  
Manmatha Mahato ◽  
...  

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
Navneet Soin ◽  
Sam J. Fishlock ◽  
Colin Kelsey ◽  
Suzanne Smith

The use of rapid point-of-care (PoC) diagnostics in conjunction with physiological signal monitoring has seen tremendous progress in their availability and uptake, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, to truly overcome infrastructural and resource constraints, there is an urgent need for self-powered devices which can enable on-demand and/or continuous monitoring of patients. The past decade has seen the rapid rise of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) as the choice for high-efficiency energy harvesting for developing self-powered systems as well as for use as sensors. This review provides an overview of the current state of the art of such wearable sensors and end-to-end solutions for physiological and biomarker monitoring. We further discuss the current constraints and bottlenecks of these devices and systems and provide an outlook on the development of TENG-enabled PoC/monitoring devices that could eventually meet criteria formulated specifically for use in LMICs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (16) ◽  
pp. 1910723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyi Dai ◽  
Long‐Biao Huang ◽  
Yuzhang Du ◽  
Jiancheng Han ◽  
Qiuqun Zheng ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Ribeiro ◽  
C. Vilarinho ◽  
J. Araújo ◽  
J. Carvalho

The increasing of world population, industrialization and global consuming, existing market products existed in the along with diversification of raw materials, are responsible for an exponential increase of wastes. This scenario represents loss of resources and ultimately causes air, soils and water pollution. Therefore, proper waste management is currently one of the major challenges faced by modern societies. Textile industries represents, in Portugal, almost 10% of total productive transforming sector and 19% of total employments in the sector composed by almost 7.000 companies. One of the main environmental problems of textile industries is the production of significant quantities of wastes from its different processing steps. According to the Portuguese Institute of Statistics (INE) these industries produce almost 500.000 tons of wastes each year, with the textile cotton waste (TCW) being the most expressive. It was estimated that 4.000 tons of TCW are produced each year in Portugal. In this work an integrated TCW valorisation procedure was evaluated, firstly by its thermal and energetic valorisation with slow pyrolysis followed by the utilization of biochar by-product, in lead and chromium synthetic wastewater decontamination. Pyrolysis experiments were conducted in a small scale rotating pyrolysis reactor with 0.1 m3 of total capacity. Results of pyrolysis experiments showed the formation of 0,241 m3 of biogas for each kilogram of TCW. Results also demonstrated that the biogas is mostly composed by hydrogen (22%), methane (14 %), carbon monoxide (20%) and carbon dioxide (12%), which represents a total high calorific value of 12.3 MJ/Nm3. Regarding biochar, results of elemental analysis demonstrated a high percentage of carbon driving its use as low cost adsorbent. Adsorption experiments were conducted with lead and chromium synthetic wastewaters (25, 50 and 100 mg L−1) in batch vessels with controlled pH. It was evaluated the behaviour of adsorption capacity and removal rate of each metal during 120 minutes of contact time using 5, 10 and 50 g L−1 of adsorbent dosage. Results indicated high affinity of adsorbent with each tested metal with 78% of removal rate in chromium and 95% in lead experiments. This suggests that biochar from TCW pyrolysis may be appropriated to wastewaters treatment, with high contents of heavy metals and it can be an effective alternative to activated carbon.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (45) ◽  
pp. 10740-10746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanghun Cho ◽  
Zhenxing Yin ◽  
Yong-keon Ahn ◽  
Yuanzhe Piao ◽  
Jeeyoung Yoo ◽  
...  

We introduce a novel self-reducible Cu ion complex ink, composed of formate, alkanolamine groups and poly alcohols, for the air sinterable, low-cost, environment-friendly fabrication of Cu conductive electrodes.


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