Triboelectric Nanogenerator Based on Graphene Forest Electrodes

doi:10.15541/jim20180521

Abstract

Abstract:

This study presents a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) with graphene forest as electrode. Graphene forest was fabricated by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process, which shows great different morphology compared with other ‘wall-like’ vertically oriented graphene so far. Graphene forest films are composed of graphene nanoflakes, exhibiting not only low sheet resistance ((110±5) Ω/□) but also uniquely discrete ‘tree-like’ morphology, which are favorable to contact and friction with other materials. According to its morphology superiority, Kapton film and graphene forest film were utilized as electrodes for triboelectric nanogenerator, in which an open circuit voltage of 20 V and a short circuit current of 0.75 μA are obtained. Furthermore, the working principle of the graphene forest based triboelectric nanogenerator was discussed. At last, three LEDs of different color in demo circuit were lighted up by as-prepared nanogenerator, which proves the effective application of graphene forest in triboelectric nanogenerator.

Key words: graphene forest, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, triboelectric nanogenerator

CLC Number:

TM31

HAN Jie-Min, WANG Mei, TONG Zhao-Min, MA Yi-Fei. Triboelectric Nanogenerator Based on Graphene Forest Electrodes[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2019, 34(8): 839-843.

Figures/Tables 6

Fig. 1 Scheme of the plasema enhanced chemical vapor deposition system

Fig. 2 Schematic diagram of GF-based triboelectric nanogenerator

Fig. 3 SEM images of graphene forest on a quartz substrate from side-view (a-b) and top-view (c-d), and HRTEM images of graphene forest in different magnifications (e-f)

Fig. 4 Raman spectrum of the graphene forest

Fig. 5 Working mechanism of GF based TENG (a), open circuit voltage output (b) and short circuit current output (c) of graphene forest based triboelectric nanogenerator with insets showing the representative cycle of each plot

Fig. 6 LEDs of different color powered by graphene forest based triboelectric nanogenerator with a simple circuit

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