Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 12, Issue 36, Pages 40021-40030Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c10097
Keywords
superhydrophobic; liquid-solid contact; triboelectric nanogenerators; drainage bottle droplet sensors; smart intravenous infusion monitors
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21774039, 51703176, 91848102]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFE0123700]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2020kfyXJJS035, WU-T2018IVB006]
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Superhydrophobic surfaces repel water and other liquids such as tissue fluid, blood, urine, and pus, which can open up a new avenue for the development of biomedical devices and has led to promising advances across diverse fields, including plasma separator devices, blood-repellent sensors, vascular stents, and heart valves. Here, the fabrication of superhydrophobic liquid-solid contact triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) and their biomedical applications as droplet sensors are reported. Triboelectrification energy can be captured and released when droplets are colliding or slipping on the superhydrophobic layer. The developed superhydrophobic TENG possesses multiple advantages in terms of simple fabrication, bendability, self-cleaning, self-adhesiveness, high sensitivity, and repellency to not only water but also a variety of solutions, including blood with a contact angle of 158.6 degrees. As a self-powered sensor, the developed prototypes of a drainage bottle droplet sensor and a smart intravenous injection monitor based on the superhydrophobic liquid-solid contact TENG can monitor the clinical drainage operation and intravenous infusion in real time, respectively. These prototypes suggest the potential merit of this superhydrophobic liquid-solid contact TENG in clinical application, paving the way for accurately monitoring clinical drainage operations and intravenous injection or blood transfusion in the future.
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