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Textile- and Fiber-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Advances and Perspectives

  • 1st Edition - November 19, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Shahid Ul Islam, Md. Milon Hossain, Daniel Mulvihill, S. Wazed Ali, Satyaranjan Bairagi
  • Language: English

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

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

Table of contents

Part 1: Fundamentals

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 19, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Shahid Ul Islam

Shahid Ul Islam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities at Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi, India. Prior to joining Jamia, he was a Fulbright Scientist at the University of California Davis, United States. He works at the interface of materials science and textile engineering, with an emphasis on the functionalization of textile and polymeric materials for use in different applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities at Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi, India

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Md. Milon Hossain

Md. Milon Hossain is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Teaching Innovation and Postdoctoral Research in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States. His current research focuses on smart/e-textiles, nanomaterials, flexible electronics, bioelectronics, conductive polymers, nanocomposites, and textile technology.
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Teaching Innovation and Postdoctoral Research in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, United State

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Daniel Mulvihill

Daniel M. Mulvihill is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Glasgow’s James Watt School of Engineering, Scotland. His research interests are mainly focused on materials engineering, tribology and materials for energy applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Materials and Manufacturing Research Group, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Scotland

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S. Wazed Ali

Wazed Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Textile and Fiber Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. His research areas broadly include nanofibrous web for energy, nanocomposite-based flexible triboelectric materials, and green chemistry in textiles.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

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Satyaranjan Bairagi

Satyaranjan Bairagi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. His research interests include development of nanotechnology-based piezoelectric and triboelectric materials for nanogenerators, as well as textile-based flexible advanced materials for renewable energy harvesting.

Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

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