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Hybridized triboelectric-electromagnetic nanogenerators and solar cell for energy harvesting and wireless power transmission

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Energy harvesting and power transmission is a significant challenge for the self-powered technologies towards mobile electronic devices. Here, we propose a hybridized energy harvester to complement each other’s strengths for simultaneously scavenging multiple types of energy and then wirelessly transmit the power. The harvester consists of electromagnetic-triboelectric nanogenerator units for collecting rotational energy and a commercial water-proof flexible solar cell. At a rotation rate of 500 rpm, the output current of electromagnetic-triboelectric nanogenerator units can reach about 630 mA through energy management. Moreover, the power harvested by hybridized energy harvester can be wirelessly transmitted up to a distance of about 100 cm in real time to charge mobile phone, anemometer, and hygrometer based on self-resonant coils. The hybridized energy harvester with wireless power transmission has potential applications in large-scale energy collection, long-distance wireless power transmission and sustainably driving mobile electronic devices.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the financial support from the National key R&D project from Minister of Science and Technology, China (Nos. 2016YFA0202702 and 2016YFA0202701), the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS (ZDBS-LY-DQC025), the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (No. BX20180081), and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019M650604). Patents have been filed to protect the reported inventions.

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  1. Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    Yandong Chen, Yang Jie, Jiaqing Zhu, Qixin Lu, Yu Cheng, Xia Cao & Zhong Lin Wang

  2. School of Nanoscience and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yandong Chen, Yang Jie, Qixin Lu, Yu Cheng, Xia Cao & Zhong Lin Wang

  3. Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Technologies, and Center for Green Innovation, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Jiaqing Zhu & Xia Cao

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

    Qixin Lu & Xia Cao

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

    Zhong Lin Wang

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Chen, Y., Jie, Y., Zhu, J. et al. Hybridized triboelectric-electromagnetic nanogenerators and solar cell for energy harvesting and wireless power transmission. Nano Res. 15, 2069–2076 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3822-0

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