Abstract
Oceans contain abundant and clean renewable energy, and the development and utilization of ocean energy will be a fundamental approach to solve the energy problem in the post-fossil energy era. Current ocean energy conversion mainly relies on electromagnetic generators, but their physical principle makes them inefficient for directly converting low-frequency and disordered ocean energy. By contrast, triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) exhibit significant advantages in low-frequency and high-entropy energy harvesting, which provide a subversive technical path for the efficient development of ocean energy. Since the idea of using TENG networks to harvest large-scale blue energy was proposed in 2014, great progress has been made in the structure and performance optimization of blue energy harvesting devices, and now the principle verification has been completed. However, there is still room for further improvement in existing blue energy conversion technologies, and continuous explorations are required in terms of device efficiency, durability, and power management. This chapter provides a comprehensive review about the original idea of blue energy, technology advantages, strategies for improving the device efficiency and durability, and power management on the outputs of TENGs and network and discusses the perspectives and challenges for blue energy harvesting.
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Jiang, T., Wang, Z.L. (2023). High Efficient and High Durability Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Blue Energy. In: Wang, Z.L., Yang, Y., Zhai, J., Wang, J. (eds) Handbook of Triboelectric Nanogenerators. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28111-2_39
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