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Revolutionizing self-powered robotic systems with triboelectric nanogenerators

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Summary: This review comprehensively introduces the recent progress of smart fibers and textiles with a highlight on triboelectric nanogenerators, including the general materials and structures, various fiber and textile devices for energy harvesting and self-powered smart sensing systems. The advances of f/t-TENGs with multifunctionality and large-scale textile processing techniques are summarized as well. Finally, the challenges and perspectives of f/t-TENGs for future improvement, large-scale production, and emerging applications are thoroughly discussed.

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Functional sponge-based triboelectric nanogenerators with energy harvesting, oil-water separating and multi-mode sensing performance

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Summary: The study successfully fabricated an advanced TENG device with mechanical/magnetic energy harvesting and smart oil-water separating performance, demonstrating a wide range of potential applications.

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ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS (2020)

Review Engineering, Mechanical

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Advances techniques of the structured light sensing in intelligent welding robots: a review

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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2020)

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Material choices for triboelectric nanogenerators: A critical review

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ECOMAT (2020)

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Yiming Liu et al.

INFOMAT (2020)

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Polyimide/Graphene Nanocomposite Foam-Based Wind-Driven Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Self-Powered Pressure Sensor

Xue Zhao et al.

ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES (2019)

Article Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

A Triboelectric Nanogenerator as a Self-Powered Sensor for a Soft-Rigid Hybrid Actuator

Jian Chen et al.

ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES (2019)

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Tilting-Sensitive Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Energy Harvesting from Unstable/Fluctuating Surfaces

Wei Zhong et al.

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (2019)

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A stretchable dual-mode sensor array for multifunctional robotic electronic skin

Cheng Zhang et al.

NANO ENERGY (2019)

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Dual-Stimulus Smart Actuator and Robot Hand Based on a Vapor-Responsive PDMS Film and Triboelectric Nanogenerator

Li Zheng et al.

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES (2019)

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Triboelectric nanogenerators enabled sensing and actuation for robotics

Shaoyu Liu et al.

NANO ENERGY (2019)

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The Current Development and Future Outlook of Triboelectric Nanogenerators: A Survey of Literature

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ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES (2019)

Proceedings Paper Automation & Control Systems

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2019 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA) (2019)

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ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING (2018)

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Optically Driven Soft Micro Robotics

Sara Nocentini et al.

ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS (2018)

Review Chemistry, Physical

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Xiao-Sheng Zhang et al.

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A unified theoretical model for Triboelectric Nanogenerators

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NANO ENERGY (2018)

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MEDICAL ENGINEERING & PHYSICS (2017)

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ACS NANO (2017)

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Yang Wang et al.

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IEEE-CAA JOURNAL OF AUTOMATICA SINICA (2017)

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SOFT ROBOTICS (2016)

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2016)

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Fish-inspired robots: design, sensing, actuation, and autonomy-a review of research

Aditi Raj et al.

BIOINSPIRATION & BIOMIMETICS (2016)

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Kevin Tai et al.

ROBOTICS (2016)

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Triboelectric smart machine elements and self-powered encoder

Majid Taghavi et al.

NANO ENERGY (2015)

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Triboelectric nanogenerators as self-powered active sensors

Sihong Wang et al.

NANO ENERGY (2015)

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SOFT ROBOTICS (2014)

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ADVANCED MATERIALS (2013)

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IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS (2013)

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Ya Yang et al.

ACS NANO (2012)

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Review of biomimetic underwater robots using smart actuators

Won-Shik Chu et al.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRECISION ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING (2012)

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Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material

Eric Brown et al.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2010)

Article Automation & Control Systems

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Sara Susca et al.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY (2008)

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D Katic et al.

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