Issue 2, 2021

Stretchable negative Poisson's ratio yarn for triboelectric nanogenerator for environmental energy harvesting and self-powered sensor

Abstract

Due to the increasingly serious environmental pollution and the extreme shortage of energy resources, harvesting clean and sustainable random energy from the environment is a scientific, effective, and necessary solution in the coming intelligent era. Such random and disorder energy, like that from human motion and textile-related movement, can be obtained via textile-based triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). However, research related to textile-based TENGs with mature, high-efficiency, and economical manufacturing techniques is limited. Here, by using a high-speed ring spinning method, negative Poisson's ratio yarn (NPRY) with a composite structure is designed and fabricated as a variety of intelligent device. Based on the special negative Poisson's ratio effect, NPRY combined with TENG can be used as a foundation structure to form diverse flexible textile-based electronic devices, such as an energy harvesting fabric, a self-counting yoga elastic band, and a self-powered pre-alarm cable. At the same time, NPRY-TENGs with different structures and structural parameters are systematically investigated to optimize the output performance in this work. This special, low-cost, and highly efficient NPRY as a foundation structure material has promising applications in the manufacture of all kinds of textile-based TENGs and harvesting a lot of random energy from the environment, where the random energy can be used by other electronic devices or those textile-based TENGs themselves as self-powered sensors.

Graphical abstract: Stretchable negative Poisson's ratio yarn for triboelectric nanogenerator for environmental energy harvesting and self-powered sensor

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 Aug 2020
Accepted
16 Dec 2020
First published
17 Dec 2020

Energy Environ. Sci., 2021,14, 955-964

Stretchable negative Poisson's ratio yarn for triboelectric nanogenerator for environmental energy harvesting and self-powered sensor

L. Chen, C. Chen, L. Jin, H. Guo, A. C. Wang, F. Ning, Q. Xu, Z. Du, F. Wang and Z. L. Wang, Energy Environ. Sci., 2021, 14, 955 DOI: 10.1039/D0EE02777D

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