Recent trends of biocompatible triboelectric nanogenerators toward self-powered e-skin

R. Sankar Ganesh, Hong Joon Yoon, Sang Woo Kim

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Abstract

The development of biocompatible electronic skin (e-skin) is foremost to next generation bio-electronics that enables diverse applications in wearable, medi-cal, artificial intelligence, and human machine interface. As serving a multifunctional platform, numerous types of electronic components (eg, sen-sors, actuators, etc.) required in e-skin, which requires users to power them in a regular manner. In this regard, researchers recently have reported compact, light, flexible, and stretchable energy harvesters are expected to revolutionize the market in wearable electronics, in particular for e-skin. The self-powered e-skin can power by itself, without any external energy from other devices. In this review, the recent progress of triboelectric nanogenerators based on diverse materials such as hydrogel, healable, stretchable, biocompatible, and biodegradable for developing self-powered e-skin is discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere12065
JournalEcoMat
Volume2
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020 Dec

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by Nano Material Technology Development Program (2020M3H4A1A03084600) through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), the ICT Creative Consilience program (IITP-2020-0-01821) through the IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation) funded by the MSIT (Ministry of Science and ICT) of Korea, and a project No SI1802 (Development of One-patch Device for HMI Based on 3D Device Printing) of the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors.

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Chemistry (miscellaneous)
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Materials Science (miscellaneous)

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