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Highly stretchable, conductive, and wide-operating temperature ionogel based wearable triboelectric nanogenerator

Qianqian Zhu1,§, Weiqiang Liao2,§, Cong Sun1,§, Xuan Qin1, Fangjia Zhang1, Haifeng Ji1, Yuqi Li2( ), Zhen Wen1( ), Xuhui Sun1( )
Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Nonferrous Metals and Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China

§ Qianqian Zhu, Weiqiang Liao, and Cong Sun contributed equally to this work.

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A wearable ionogel-based triboelectric nanogenerator with high temperature stability, stretchability, and washability has been proposed for biomechanical energy collection and self-powered health motion sensor.

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The rapid development of wearable electronic products brings challenges to corresponding power supplies. In this work, a thermally stable and stretchable ionogel-based triboelectric nanogenerator (SI-TENG) for biomechanical energy collection is proposed. The ionic conductivity of the ionogel increased to 0.53 S·m−1 through optimal regulation of the amount of amino-terminated hyperbranched polyamide (NH2-HBP), which also has high strain of 812%, excellent stretch recovery, and wide operating temperature range of −80 to 250 °C. The SI-TENG with this ionogel as electrode and silicone rubber both as the triboelectric layer and encapsulation layer exhibits high temperature stability, stretchability, and washability. By adding appropriate amount of nano SiO2 to triboelectric layer, the output performance is further improved by 93%. Operating in single-electrode mode at 1.5 Hz, the outputs of a SI-TENG with an area of 3 cm × 3 cm are 247 V, 11.7 μA, 78 nC, and 3.2 W·m−2, respectively. It was used as a self-charging power supply to charge a 22 μF capacitor to 1.6 V in 167 s with the palm patting and then to power the electronic calculator. Furthermore, the SI-TENG can also be used as a self-powered motion sensor to detect the amplitude and frequency of finger bending, human swallowing, nodding, and shaking of the head motion changes through the analysis of the output voltage.

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triboelectric nanogeneratorionogelself-powered motion sensorstretchabletemperature stability

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 9,
September 2023
Pages 11638-11645
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-023-5851-3
Cite this article:
Zhu Q, Liao W, Sun C, et al. Highly stretchable, conductive, and wide-operating temperature ionogel based wearable triboelectric nanogenerator. Nano Research, 2023, 16(9): 11638-11645. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5851-3
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Received: 21 November 2022
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Published: 05 July 2023
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