Li Zifan, Gan Wee Chen, Tang Lihua, Aw Kean Chin
Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.
New Energy Science and Engineering, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang 43900, Malaysia.
Micromachines (Basel). 2023 Jun 29;14(7):1333. doi: 10.3390/mi14071333.
The single-cell triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) often produces insufficient energy, leading to the use of a multicellular TENG structure. This work experimented with and simulated a dual-cell TENG with various configurations in parallel and series arrangements. The working principle of charge generation during each phase of a contact-separation cycle was explained through the analysis and comparison of five electrical configurations of a dual-cell TENG. Our observations indicate that measuring the output charge of a TENG provides a more reliable performance comparison. Finally, multicellular TENG with four cells arranged in an X-shape (X-TENG), self-supporting structure is fabricated and further experimented with, validating our conjectures derived from a dual-cell TENG.
单细胞摩擦纳米发电机（TENG）通常产生的能量不足，因此需要使用多细胞TENG结构。这项工作对具有各种并联和串联配置的双细胞TENG进行了实验和模拟。通过对双细胞TENG的五种电气配置的分析和比较，解释了接触-分离循环各阶段电荷产生的工作原理。我们的观察结果表明，测量TENG的输出电荷可以提供更可靠的性能比较。最后，制造了一种具有四个呈X形排列的细胞的多细胞TENG（X-TENG）自支撑结构，并进行了进一步实验，验证了我们从双细胞TENG得出的推测。
