Handbook of Triboelectric Nanogenerators

This handbook comprehensively covers the rapidly evolving field of power generation using triboelectric nanogenerators. Since their emergence in 2012, triboelectric nanogenerators have experienced fast development both in fundamental science aspects and technological innovations resulting in a plethora of outstanding applications and commercial opportunities in e.g. micro-nano energy systems, self-powered sensors, blue energy, and high-voltage power sources.

The Handbook of Triboelectric Nanogenerators provides an indispensable overview of the state of the art in the field. It begins with a review of the physical and technological fundamentals and provides detailed coverage of triboelectric nanogenerators for cutting-edge applications from wearable electronics and medical implants to smart home sensing devices and human-machine interfacing.

Edited and authored by active researchers in the field, the handbook offers a wealth of information for applied physicists and chemists, as well as materials scientists and engineers. In addition, mechanical and electronic engineers working in the fields of energy scavenging, power sources, and sensor-related application development will benefit greatly from the technical information presented in this groundbreaking reference work.

Prof. Zhong Lin (ZL) Wang received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in physics. He now is the Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering, Regents' Professor, Engineering Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Nanostructure Characterization, at Georgia Tech. Dr. Wang has made original and innovative contributions to the synthesis, discovery, characterization and understanding of fundamental physical properties of oxide nanobelts and nanowires, as well as applications of nanowires in energy sciences, electronics, optoelectronics and biological science. His discovery and breakthroughs in developing nanogenerators established the principle and technological road map for harvesting mechanical energy from environment and biological systems for powering personal electronics. His research on self-powered nanosystems has inspired the worldwide effort in academia and industry for studying energy for micro-nano-systems, which is now a distinct disciplinary in energy research and future sensor networks. He coined and pioneered the field of piezotronics and piezophototronics by introducing piezoelectric potential gated charge transport process in fabricating new electronic and optoelectronic devices.

Prof. Ya Yang received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. He is currently a professor at Beijing Institute of Nano energy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. His main research interests focus on nano energy materials and devices for energy scavenging, self-powered sensing, and some new physical effects. He has published one book and more than 200 SCI academic papers in Nature Electronics and other journals. These papers have been cited by more than 14000 times, and the H-index is 74. The research results are reported as highlights by various famous international academic media, such as The Guardian and so on. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Nano energy Advances, and the editorial committee member of Nano-Micro Letters and some other journals. His main research interests focus on the field of hybridized and coupled devices for energy conversion, self-powered sensing, and some new physical effects.

Prof. Junyi Zhai received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2009. Now he is Professor at Beijing Institute of Nano energy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research interest and activities are: micro/nano piezoelectric semiconductors, sensors and self-powered systems. He has authorized 120 journal papers with more than 9000 citations.

Dr. Jie Wang is a professor at Beijing Institute of Nano energy and Nanosystems (BINN), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received double Bachelor degrees in Polymer Materials and Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Master degree in Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics and PhD degree in Electronics Science and Technology from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2000, 2003, and 2008. He worked in Xi'an Jiaotong University from 2003 to 2016, then worked in BINN as a professor. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed journal articles, and held over 20 patents. He was awarded New Century Excellent Talents in University and first Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of MOE of PR China. His current research interests focus on triboelectric nanogenerators, mechanical energy harvesting, and self-powered system.