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Self-powered Sensing for Chemical and Environmental Detection

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In this chapter, we present self-powered chemical/environmental sensors, the working principle of which relies on the change of triboelectric charge density when the pretreated triboelectric surface has been assembled with certain chemical species , usually by immersing it in the aqueous solution of chemicals. Hence, variations of electric output performance (open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current) could be monitored with respect to different concentrations of chemicals. On the basis of this concept, a few original self-powered chemical and environmental sensors have been developed to detect the concentration of heavy metal ions, phenol, catechin, and UV intensity. High sensitivity and excellent selectivity has been achieved for each of these chemical/environmental sensors, indicating its potential and promising applications in building fully self-powered chemical detection and environmental monitoring systems.

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    Zhong Lin Wang, Long Lin, Jun Chen, Simiao Niu & Yunlong Zi

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Wang, Z.L., Lin, L., Chen, J., Niu, S., Zi, Y. (2016). Self-powered Sensing for Chemical and Environmental Detection. In: Triboelectric Nanogenerators. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40039-6_17

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