title: Highly transparent triboelectric nanogenerator for harvesting water-related energy reinforced by antireflection coating.
abstract: Water-related energy is an inexhaustible and renewable energy resource in our environment, which has huge amount of energy and is not largely dictated by daytime and sunlight. The transparent characteristic plays a key role in practical applications for some devices designed for harvesting water-related energy. In this paper, a highly transparent triboelectric nanogenerator (T-TENG) was designed to harvest the electrostatic energy from flowing water. The instantaneous output power density of the T-TENG is 11.56 mW/m(2). Moreover, with the PTFE film acting as an antireflection coating, the maximum transmittance of the fabricated T-TENG is 87.4%, which is larger than that of individual glass substrate. The T-TENG can be integrated with silicon-based solar cell, building glass and car glass, which demonstrates its potential applications for harvesting waste water energy in our living environment and on smart home system and smart car system.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of science and technology Beijing, Beijing. 100083, China.
authors.forename: Qijie
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of science and technology Beijing, Beijing. 100083, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoqin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of science and technology Beijing, Beijing. 100083, China.
authors.forename: Yousong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of science and technology Beijing, Beijing. 100083, China.
authors.forename: Kui
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of science and technology Beijing, Beijing. 100083, China.
authors.forename: Mengyuan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of science and technology Beijing, Beijing. 100083, China.
authors.forename: Shengnan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of science and technology Beijing, Beijing. 100083, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: 1] State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of science and technology Beijing, Beijing. 100083, China [2] Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Technologies, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing. 100083, China.
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang