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Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Particle Filtering

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Particle filtering is the most important aspect of addressing the global air pollution issue and contributing to a sustainable society. Fibrous filter and electrostatic precipitator (ESP) are the most commonly employed technologies. However, the fibrous filter is always dense to achieve a high filtration efficiency, which is power consumption, and ESPs need a high-voltage supply, face safety issue, and produce ozone, which largely limit their application diversity. Researchers have noticed that various types of mechanical energy, e.g., airflow, vibration, body movement, etc., exist during the particle filtering process. Through structure and material design, these mechanical movements generate electrostatic charges on the filter materials via triboelectrification effect (TE), which would improve the total filtration performance of the fibrous filter. Furthermore, based on triboelectrification and electrostatic induction, the emerging triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) technology can convert these energies into high-voltage output directly for ESP applications, with the advantages of low cost, portable, high efficiency, safe, no ozone emission, etc. Therefore, in this chapter, the traditional fibrous filter and ESP for particle filtering, the mechanism and strategies of utilizing triboelectric charges and TENG for enhancing their filtration performance, and the examples of this technology in extending application diversity are systematically presented. Finally, the perspectives and challenges for the commercialization of TENG-based particle filters are further discussed.

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    Hengyu Guo

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  3. Bei**g Inst of Nanoenergy & Nanosystems, University of Chinese Academy of Sc, Bei**g, China

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Guo, H., Chen, J. (2023). Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Particle Filtering. In: Wang, Z.L., Yang, Y., Zhai, J., Wang, J. (eds) Handbook of Triboelectric Nanogenerators. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05722-9_37-1

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