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Paper triboelectric nanogenerator designed for continuous reuse and quick construction

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Along with the unceasing growth of worldwide economic and the associated issues on resources, energy and environment, clean energy generating technologies that are based on recyclable materials, if possible, may become the future trend of development. Here, we report the design of a cheap, lightweight, and recyclable single-electrode triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) that utilizes waste paper as the triboelectric material. Under the current strategy, we successfully developed green energy machines without vastly increasing the mining of various critical minerals around the world. The as-designed TENG could not only collect and convert mechanical energy into electricity with sound efficiency, but also has the merit for continuous reuse and quick construction. The maximum output power density is as high as 171 mW·m−2 at a resistance of 130 MΩ and could be integrated into a book for monitoring reading actions, thus providing a new approach to the low-cost, green and sustainable self-powered electronic systems.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the financial support from the National key R and D Project from Minister of Science and Technology, China (Nos. 2016YFA0202702 and 2016YFA0202701), and the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (No. ZDBS-LY-DQC025). Patents have been filed to protect the reported inventions.

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  1. Zhenhuan Zhang, Yang Jie, Jiaqing Zhu, and Zongye Zhu contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Research Center for Bioengineering and Sending Technology, Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing technology, School of Chemistry and Biological engineering, and Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Technologies, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Zhenhuan Zhang, Jiaqing Zhu, Xia Cao & Ning Wang

  2. CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    Zhenhuan Zhang, Yang Jie, Jiaqing Zhu, Zongye Zhu, Hong Chen, Qixin Lu, Yuanming Zeng, Xia Cao & Zhonglin Wang

  3. College of Nanoscience and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yang Jie, Zongye Zhu, Yuanming Zeng, Xia Cao & Zhonglin Wang

  4. Center on Nanoenergy Research, School of Physical Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China

    Hong Chen, Qixin Lu & Xia Cao

  5. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332-0245, USA

    Zhonglin Wang

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Zhang, Z., Jie, Y., Zhu, J. et al. Paper triboelectric nanogenerator designed for continuous reuse and quick construction. Nano Res. 15, 1109–1114 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3612-8

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