
Textile- and Fiber-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators
Advances and Perspectives
- 1st Edition - November 12, 2025
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Shahid Ul Islam, Md. Milon Hossain, Daniel Mulvihill, S. Wazed Ali, Satyaranjan Bairagi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 0 7 4 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 0 7 5 - 1
Textile- and Fiber-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Advances and Perspectives presents the latest developments in triboelectric nanogenerators, covering current achieveme… Read more
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Textile- and Fiber-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Advances and Perspectives presents the latest developments in triboelectric nanogenerators, covering current achievements and applications, as well as potential future applications. The book identifies the key drawbacks to these devices and then proposes solutions in a systematic way. It presents a guide for material scientists, electrical and chemical engineers, and industry practitioners on the current state-of-the- art of this multidisciplinary research area, while also opening up important new avenues of research for the industry to further develop smart textile-based energy harvesting devices.
Readers will find comprehensive coverage of all types of textile- and fiber-based triboelectric nanogenerators for application in wearable technologies and self-powered electronics. It also outlines the unique advantages of triboelectric nanogenerators, their design considerations and guidelines, and the key challenges in translating them from the lab into real-world applications, with a particular focus on applications in the fields of sensing, structural health monitoring, and energy harvesting.
- Introduces textile-based triboelectric materials used for harvesting energy from mechanical energy waste
- Covers fabrication of triboelectric nanogenerators in conventional textiles for the development of next-generation wearable energy harvesters
- Provides systematic and comprehensive coverage of textile-based triboelectric nanogenerators and highlights current and potential applications
Materials researchers and scientists working at the interface of energy harvesting, textiles, and polymers related to wearable technology. Researchers in materials science, engineering, nanotechnology, and energy
1. Introduction to triboelectric nanogenerators
2. Textile-based TENG working modes
3. Materials and preparation methods
4. Recent Advances in Fabrication methods
5. Performance Enhancement Strategies
6. Power management strategies
Part 2: Fiber-based triboelectric nanogenerators
7. Single fiber-based triboelectric nanogenerators
8. Core-shell yarn-based triboelectric nanogenerators
9. Solution or wet spun fiber-based triboelectric nanogenerators
Part 3: Fabric-based triboelectric nanogenerators
10. Woven fabric-based triboelectric nanogenerators
11. Knitted fabric-based triboelectric nanogenerators
12. Braided fabric-based triboelectric nanogenerators
Part 4: Nanofibrous triboelectric nanogenerators
13. Triboelectric nanogenerator based on single polymers
14. Triboelectric nanogenerator based on polymeric nanocomposite
15. Triboelectric nanogenerator based on multiple layered TENG
Part 5: Applications of Triboelectric nanogenerators
16. Textile-based triboelectric nanogenerators as sensor device (SD)
17. Textile-based triboelectric nanogenerators as energy harvesting device (EHD)
18. Textile-based triboelectric nanogenerators for structural health monitoring (SHM)
19. Challenges and future direction
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 12, 2025
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
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Shahid Ul Islam
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Md. Milon Hossain
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Daniel Mulvihill
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S. Wazed Ali
Dr. S. Wazed Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. After obtaining his Master and Ph.D. degree from IIT Delhi in 2006 and 2011, respectively he joined GE (General Electric) India Technology Centre Pvt. Ltd. (JFWTC), Bangalore as a ‘Research Scientist’. Subsequently he moved to SABIC Research and Technology Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore and worked as a ‘Scientist’ before joining IIT Delhi in 2014. His current research areas broadly include nanoparticle synthesis and application in textiles for value added products, green chemistry in textile finishing, fibrous structure for piezoelectric energy harvesting, etc. He has published numerous research articles in various international peer reviewed journals. At present, he is deeply involved in pursuing interdisciplinary research supported by public funding agencies, Govt. of India and various industries.
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Satyaranjan Bairagi
Satyaranjan Bairagi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Associate under a project funded by EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. He completed his Ph.D. in Material Science (Smart Textiles) from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India, in 2021. He has received “Distinction in Doctoral Thesis” award for the best PhD thesis. His area of research interest includes functional textiles, engineered materials for energy harvesting, polymers, smart textiles, nanocomposites, surface engineering, triboelectric and piezoelectric nanogenerators, fabrication and characterization of functional materials: nanofibres and metal oxides. He has published several research articles in the research fields mentioned above.