Hydrogel-based triboelectric devices for energy-harvesting and wearable sensing applications

Ultra-strong adhesive, self-healing and electroactive bio-based hydrogels for the on-demand fabrication of sandwich-inspired smart electronic sensing floors

“…Electronic smart devices can be widely used in smart homes, 1 wearable sensors, 2 medical diagnosis, health monitoring, etc. 3–5 Therefore, smart home devices 6 have attracted significant interest in recent years, among which smart floors 7 have potential for practical applications, for instance, in real-time motion monitoring.…”

Design and synthesis of triboelectric polymers for high performance triboelectric nanogenerators

“…Moreover, hydrogels and ionic gels having a large number of mobile ions are also reported as promising stretchable triboelectric polymers, which can be applied in electronic Energy & Environmental Science Review skin/tattoo, self-powered sensors and flexible devices. [193][194][195][196][197][198] Iondoped flexible polymers can also be used as stretchable electrodes to improve the output performance of TENGs by forming an EDL effect. 199,200 Gel or ion polymer composites with ionic materials have great potential for flexible, stretchable TENG applications.…”

Smart Skin‐Adhesive Patches: From Design to Biomedical Applications

“…[123] The physicochemical properties of these hydrogels render them promising in flexible energy storage systems such as supercapacitors and batteries. [127] Thus, conductive hydrogels are an emerging potential material in stretchable electrodes and electrolytes to resolve poor ionic conductivity, electrolyte evaporation, and leakage issues.…”