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ACS Nano. 2017 Jul 25;11(7):7440-7446. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b03818. Epub 2017 Jul 07.

Self-Powered Acceleration Sensor Based on Liquid Metal Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Vibration Monitoring.

ACS nano

Binbin Zhang, Lei Zhang, Weili Deng, Long Jin, Fengjun Chun, Hong Pan, Bingni Gu, Haitao Zhang, Zekai Lv, Weiqing Yang, Zhong Lin Wang

Affiliations

  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.
  2. Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100083, China.

PMID: 28671813 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b03818

Abstract

An acceleration sensor is an essential component of the vibration measurement, while the passivity and sensitivity are the pivotal features for its application. Here, we report a self-powered and highly sensitive acceleration sensor based on a triboelectric nanogenerator composed of a liquid metal mercury droplet (LMMD) and nanofiber-networked polyvinylidene fluoride (nn-PVDF) film. Due to the ultrahigh surface-to-volume ratio of nn-PVDF film and high surface tension, high mass density, high elastic as well as mechanical robustness of LMMD, the open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current reach up to 15.5 V and 300 nA at the acceleration of 60 m/s

Keywords: acceleration sensor; liquid metal; self-powered; triboelectric nanogenerator; vibration monitoring

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