Over the past decade, TENG development has progressed rapidly, from fundamental scientific understanding to advanced technologies and applications. This Primer gives a brief overview of …

The study presents the fundamental scientific understanding of electron transfer in contact electrification in solid–solid and liquid–solid cases and a newly revised model for the formation of electric double …

Herein, we developed an all-recyclable and mechanochemi-cally robust TENG (AR-TENG) with a battery charging circuit and demonstrated its application to ocean energy harvesting and monitoring …

In this paper, we introduce the Time-Evolving Natural Gradient (TENG), generalizing time-dependent variational principles and optimization-based time integration, leveraging natural gradient optimiza …

Starting from TENG mechanisms including the ways of charge generation and energy-boosting, we introduce the applications from energy harvesters to various kinds of self-powered sensors, that is, …

Who uses the concept? Unlike such words as “like” or “love” that may be uttered as performatives (e.g., “Wo xihuan ni” or, “I like you”), one cannot say, “I teng you.” Rather, teng is used to describe how …

This paper deals with a contact-separation TENG (CS-TENG) devoted to vibration harvesting. Optimization was carried out taking into account all the parameters of the TENG connected to a load …