Development and Applications in Intelligent Sports of Hydrogel-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Overview

Journal Materials (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Date 2025 Jan 11

PMID 39795679

Authors

Guishan Feng

Yunlu Wang

Dongsheng Liu

Zihang Cheng

Qingyang Feng

Hongwei Wang

Wei Han

Changjun Jia

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Abstract

As an emerging self-powered technology, triboelectric nanogenerators have the characteristics of a simple structure, high conversion efficiency, diverse material selection, and stable output. Hydrogels have the advantages of flexibility, extensibility, and shape adaptability, which means that hydrogel-based triboelectric nanogenerators (H-TENGs) have high flexibility, self-healing abilities, conductivity, and fatigue resistance. They can still operate normally in scenarios involving bending, pressing, stretching, and folding. H-TENGs offer a method of versatile and sustainable innovation in sports monitoring. This review elucidates the working principles and modes of H-TENGs, examines H-TENG characteristics that are relevant to intelligent sports, and summarizes their applications in this field. This paper concludes with a discussion on the development and applications of H-TENGs in intelligent sports.

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