Research:

Nanogenerators for Energy Harvesting

Nanogenerators for Energy Harvesting

Leading mechanical energy harvesting group specialized in materials development and device fabrication

Material Development
  • Graphene oxide-conducting polymer hybrid modified PDMS composites
  • Reduced graphene oxide –conducting polymer hybrid modified PDMS composites
  • Electrospun nanofibers – Nylon 6,6, Nylon 11, PVDF, PVDF-MoS2 Cellulose acetate etc
  • Elastomers– Natural rubber, Nitrile rubber, Nitrile rubber/ Mxene composites etc
Device Development
  • We harvest energy from unutilized mechanical energy such as human motion, body parts movements, vehicle vibration, etc using triboelectric and piezoelectric nanogenerators

LED powering from hand tapping

Energy harvesting from vehicle vibrations

Digital watch powering using smart mat

Self-powered sensors
  • We develop sensors for wide varity of applications including respiration monitoring, impact sensing, human direction monitoring, humidity sensing, gas sensing etc using high performance triboelectric materials

Triboelectric belt for respiration monitoring

Pedestrian crossing detector using nitrile rubber TENG

Humidity sensor using electrospun Nylon 6,6 TENG

Triboelectric smart mat for home automation

Triboelectric treadmill

Scholars working in this area
Materials development experts
Device fabrication experts