Rapid, facile and cost-effective triboelectric generator from plain textiles: A case study

As mobile and wearable devices evolve, the challenge of supplying adequate power within compact devices has become more critical than ever. Conventional solutions typically rely either on enhancing battery energy density or on harvesting supplementary electrical energy through work done in another way, such as the motion; however, these approaches often introduce considerable cost and design complexity. In this work, we investigate whether a triboelectric generator constructed entirely from common, low-cost textile materials can serve as a practical and significant alternative for powering in portable electronics. The fabricated textile-based generators were subjected to a series of performance and durability assessments, including washability and delamination-strength testing. Our results demonstrated that built up generators can produce sufficient energy in order to potentially power an electronics circuit.