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. 2023 Aug 5;123(16):9982–10078. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00139

Table 10. Electrical, Mechanical, and Optical Properties of Transparent Wearable Energy Harvesters.

material power density, energy density voltage, current transparency flexibility ref
Piezoelectric
PES (substrate), PdAu or ITO (top electrode), ZnO nanorods (piezomaterials)   current density, 1 μA cm–2 (at load 0.9 kgf, ITO); current density, 10 μA cm–2 (at load 0.9 kgf, PdAu) 70%   (809)
PET (substrate), ITO (electrode), GQDs/PVDF-HFP (piezomaterials)   6 V, 25 nA (at load 1 kgf)   80, 100 mV (hand movement, breathing condition) (810)
ITO/PET (substrate, bottom electrode), Zn2SiO4 nanorods/NR-PDMS (piezomaterials), graphene (top electrode) piezoelectric charge coefficient: 117 p.m. V–1, average energy conversion efficiency, 29.10% 5.5 V, 0.50 μA cm–2 (at load 0.15 kgf)   2.35 V, 13 nA cm–2 (bending condition) (811)
PVDF-TrFE/SWCNTs (piezo-materials), Cr/Au (electrode) power density: 20 mW cm–3 (at load resistance 1 MΩ), no notable decrease in energy harvesting capability under 10000 cycles maximum 2.0 V (recycled device) at input impedance 20 MΩ (finger pinching), maximum 1.2 μA (recycled device) at input impedance 10 kΩ (finger pinching)   bendable (812)
h-BN/ZnO nanorods array/h-BN sandwich, Cu paper (electrode), ZnO nanorods array/PDMS (piezomaterials), CuNWs (electrode), PET (substrate) power density: 169 mW cm–3 (at load resistance 30 MΩ, with h-BN), 0.1313 mW cm–3 5 V, short-current: 18 μA (bending, with h-BN sandwiched ZnO nanoarray), 2.1 V, 0.5 μA 46% bendable (813)
Triboelectric
silicon rubber/PVA gel (ionic current collector), VHB (substrate) power density: 40 μW cm–2(at load resistance 1 MΩ, ∼10 N, 4 Hz) open-circuit voltage, 50 V, current: 6.5 μA cm–2; charge transfer density, 17 nC cm–2 (10 N, 4 Hz) 92% tensile strain, 700%; stretching cycles, 500 (681)
PDMS or VHB (elastomer), PAAm hydrogel/LiCl (ionic conductor, electrode), PDMS or VHB (elastomer) power density: 35 mW cm–2 (at load resistance 70 MΩ, 100 kPa, 1.5 Hz) open-circuit voltage, 145 V, current 1.5 μA cm–2; charge, 47 nC (100 kPa, 1.5 Hz) 96.2% tensile strain: 1160% (814)
ionogel (electrode, friction layer 1), PDMS (friction layer 2), ionogel (electrode, friction layer 1), PDMS (packaging) maximum sensitivity: 1.76 V N–1 (range 0.1–1 N, at strain 50%) open-circuit voltage, 0.3 V; current, 2.3 nA (0.1 N, 1 Hz, contact area diameter 11.5 mm) 83% tensile strain: 80% (no change in sensitivity) (815)
PDMS/zwitterionic network hydrogel (ionic conductor), PDMS power density: 209 mW cm–2 (at load resistance 30 MΩ) open-circuit voltage, 123 V; current, 5.1 μA; charge, 42 nC (contact area 40 × 50 mm2) 98.1% areal strain: 1600% (816)
PVC gel (active material, conducting layer) power density: 8.7 μW cm–2 (at load resistance 500 MΩ) open-circuit voltage, 24.7 V; current, 0.83 μA (50 kPa, 5 Hz, contact area 20 × 20 mm2) 91% tensile strain: 250%, (817)
Thermoelectric
Cu iodide (thermoelectric materials), Au (electrode), PET (substrate) thermoelectric figure of merit ZT, 0.23 (at 300 K); power density, 2.4 mW cm–2 (at del T: 50 K) power output: 8.2 nW (at del T: 10.8K) 60–85% bending cycles: 400, (resistance change <0.2% under bending angle of 90° (818)
donor-doped ZnO/mica (thermoelectric materials) power factor: 1 × 10–4 W m–1 K–2     bending cycles: 100 (radius 14 mm, without crack and change in Seebeck coefficient) (819)
CuI (thermoelectric materials, p-type), gallium doped ZnO (thermoelectric materials, n-type), ITO (conductive electrode for series connection), Kapton (substrate) thermoelectric figure of merit ZT, 0.29; power factor, 4.7 × 10–4 W m–1 K–2 short-circuit current, 0.29 μA; maximum output voltage, 0.43 mV, (at del T: 5 °C); power output, 0.41 nW (at del T: 20 °C) >70% (CuI film, p-type), >80% (GZO, n-type) CuI film-bending cycle, 100 (resistance change <10%); GZO film-cracks in films at bending (820)