Electric Eel-Skin-Inspired Mechanically Durable and Super-Stretchable Nanogenerator for Deformable Power Source and Fully Autonomous Conformable Electronic-Skin Applications

Ying-Chih Lai; Jianan Deng; Simiao Niu; Wenbo Peng; Changsheng Wu; Ruiyuan Liu; Zhen Wen; Zhong Lin Wang

doi:10.1002/adma.201603527

Electric Eel-Skin-Inspired Mechanically Durable and Super-Stretchable Nanogenerator for Deformable Power Source and Fully Autonomous Conformable Electronic-Skin Applications

Adv Mater. 2016 Dec;28(45):10024-10032. doi: 10.1002/adma.201603527. Epub 2016 Sep 28.

Authors

Ying-Chih Lai^{1

2}, Jianan Deng¹, Simiao Niu¹, Wenbo Peng¹, Changsheng Wu¹, Ruiyuan Liu¹, Zhen Wen¹, Zhong Lin Wang^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
² Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227, Taiwan.
³ Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100083, China.

PMID: 27678014
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201603527

Abstract

Electric eel-skin-inspired mechanically durable and super-stretchable nanogenerator is demonstrated for the first time by using triboelectric effect. This newly designed nanogenerator can produce electricity by touch or tapping despite under various extreme mechanical deformations or even after experiencing damage. This device can be used not only as deformable and wearable power source but also as fully autonomous and self-sufficient adaptive electronic skin system.

Keywords: deformable electronics; electronic skins; self-powered human-machine interfaces; stretchable electronics; triboelectric nanogenerators.