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The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the increasing energy crisis call for a new type of energy source. Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), which can convert mechanical energy to electricity, develop quickly in recent years and catch more and more people’s attention all over the world. Meanwhile the importance of the standardization for TENG has been emphasized; thus developing standardized theoretical models and experimental methods to quantitatively evaluate the performance becomes more and more important for the commercialization and industrialization of the TENG technology. This chapter systematically reviews the origin of the V-Q plot (the standardized characterization tool), the figure of merits (FOMs, the standard for quantitatively charactering the energy output per cycle for TENG), effective output energy density, and standardized characterization method. Several essential factors which are going to be potentially involved in the standardization for TENGs will also be discussed in this paper, including environmental factors and lifetime assessment. The standardization of TENG will be extremely helpful to understand and improve further applications of this emerging energy harvester. We believe that the standardization of TENG will greatly facilitate the commercialization and industrialization of TENGs in the future.
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Zi, Y. (2023). Figure of Merit of Triboelectric Nanogenerator. In: Wang, Z.L., Yang, Y., Zhai, J., Wang, J. (eds) Handbook of Triboelectric Nanogenerators. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05722-9_8-1
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