Customizing Triboelectric Nanogenerator on Everyday Clothes by Screen‐Printing Technology for Biomechanical Energy Harvesting and Human‐Interactive Applications

Abstract

Integrating self‐powered sensors or energy harvesters with everyday clothes brings a novel insight into wearable electronics and improves personal intelligence in the era of the Internet of Things. This work develops a customizable screen‐printed textile triboelectric nanogenerator (SPT‐TENG) for biomechanical energy harvesting and human‐interactive applications. The as‐fabricated textile TENG not only presents excellent wearing experiences such as lightweight, permeability, and washability, but also exhibits high electrical output performance to power sustainably some portable electronics such as a watch or calculator. The system‐level wearable human‐interactive applications, including a wireless keyboard and a smart home appliance control, are also demonstrated with the advantages of cyber security, easy operation, low cost, and wearability through screen‐printing pattern‐customized TENG arrays. Benefiting from these features, the SPT‐TENG shows promising applications in wearable electronics, human‐machine interfaces, and artificial intelligence.

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“…As the sliding continues, the next nylon film also acquires a positive charge through charge transfer (stage iv). By employing electrostatic induction, the charge redistributes through an external load to generate continuous AC output, [33][34][35] ultimately entering a stable state after a few cycles of saturation. The working principle of the stable state is demonstrated in Fig.…”

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“…Furthermore, screen printing technology enables the customization of patterns for textile-based TENGs. Chi Zhang et al [ 227 ] created a durable, screen-printed textile TENG by sequentially printing nylon and silver inks onto fabric (as shown in Figure 19 d), with the nylon ink base layer exhibiting strong adhesion to the fabric. Additionally, fabricating flexible single-electrode TENGs with multifaceted structures from diverse materials in a single-step process poses a challenge.…”

“…( d ) Alternating printing of nylon ink and silver ink to fabricate custom−patterned screen−printed textile TENG. Reprinted with permission from [ 227 ]. Copyright 2022, John Wiley and Sons.…”

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“…In addition, these energy sources can be harvested from vibration, wind, thermal, raindrop, and human motion [ [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] ]. To harvest these green energy sources, the triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a recent technology that includes advantages such as high electrical output performance, simple structural designs, and lightweight and diverse triboelectric layers [ [14] , [15] , [16] ]. Thus, the TENGs could replace conventional batteries to satisfy the new demand for powering IoT devices [ 17 ].…”