Materials science

Optoelectronics

Artificial intelligence

Composite material

Physics

Charge (physics)

Electron

Nanotechnology

Quantum mechanics

Operating system

Voltage

Nanogenerator

Computer science

Mode (computer interface)

Space charge

Boosting (machine learning)

Triboelectric effect

Nature Communications

The sliding mode triboelectric nanogenerator (S-TENG) is an effective technology for in-plane low-frequency mechanical energy harvesting. However, as surface modification of tribo-materials and charge excitation strategies are not well applicable for this mode, output performance promotion of S-TENG has no breakthrough recently. Herein, we propose a new strategy by designing shielding layer and alternative blank-tribo-area enabled charge space-accumulation (CSA) for enormously improving the charge density of S-TENG. It is found that the shielding layer prevents the air breakdown on the interface of tribo-layers effectively and the blank-tribo-area with charge dissipation on its surface of tribo-material promotes charge accumulation. The charge space-accumulation mechanism is analyzed theoretically and verified by experiments. The charge density of CSA-S-TENG achieves a 2.3 fold enhancement (1.63 mC m

Boosting output performance of sliding mode triboelectric nanogenerator by charge space-accumulation effect