Self-Powered, Long-Durable, and Highly Selective Oil–Solid Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Energy Harvesting and Intelligent MonitoringShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Nano-Micro Letters, ISSN 2311-6706, Vol. 14, no 1, article id 160Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have potential to achieve energy harvesting and condition monitoring of oils, the “lifeblood” of industry. However, oil absorption on the solid surfaces is a great challenge for oil–solid TENG (O-TENG). Here, oleophobic/superamphiphobic O-TENGs are achieved via engineering of solid surface wetting properties. The designed O-TENG can generate an excellent electricity (with a charge density of 9.1 µC m−2 and a power density of 1.23 mW m−2), which is an order of magnitude higher than other O-TENGs made from polytetrafluoroethylene and polyimide. It also has a significant durability (30,000 cycles) and can power a digital thermometer for self-powered sensor applications. Further, a superhigh-sensitivity O-TENG monitoring system is successfully developed for real-time detecting particle/water contaminants in oils. The O-TENG can detect particle contaminants at least down to 0.01 wt% and water contaminants down to 100 ppm, which are much better than previous online monitoring methods (particle > 0.1 wt%; water > 1000 ppm). More interesting, the developed O-TENG can also distinguish water from other contaminants, which means the developed O-TENG has a highly water-selective performance. This work provides an ideal strategy for enhancing the output and durability of TENGs for oil–solid contact and opens new intelligent pathways for oil–solid energy harvesting and oil condition monitoring.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Nature, 2022. Vol. 14, no 1, article id 160
Keywords [en]
Oil, Triboelectric nanogenerator, Energy harvesting, Intelligent monitoring
National Category
Other Materials Engineering
Research subject
Machine Elements
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-92427DOI: 10.1007/s40820-022-00903-8ISI: 000836616600001PubMedID: 35930162Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85136323285OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-92427DiVA, id: diva2:1686653
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2019-00904Swedish Research Council, 2019-04941Stiftelsen Seth M. Kempes Minnes Stipendiefond, JCK-1903.1
Note
Validerad;2022;Nivå 2;2022-08-10 (hanlid);
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China (51905027)
2022-08-102022-08-102023-09-05Bibliographically approved