Professor Jaeyoung Park's Research Team (Electronic Engineering)

Develops a Wearable Sensor with Excellent Stretchability and Breathability, No Battery Required

- Development of High-output Triboelectric Nanogenerator with Superior Breathability and Stretchability and Power-free Wearable Sensors

- Expected Applications in Wearable Digital Healthcare, Sports, Soft Robots, Defense Industry, etc.

- Published in the Chemical Engineering Journal by Elsevier (IF: 15.1) -

The research team of Professor Jaeyoung Park from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Kwangwoon University has successfully developed a high-output triboelectric nanogenerator based on Ecoflex and Styrene-Ethylene-Butylene-Styrene (SEBS) with excellent porosity and stretchability, as well as a power-free human activity monitoring sensor utilizing this technology.

 From left: Professor Jaeyoung Park, Dr. Sohel

The research was supported by the government (Ministry of Science and ICT) through the National Research Foundation’s Mid-Career Researcher Support Program (NRF-2020R1A2C2012820), the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's Industrial Technology Innovation Program (RS-2022-00154983, Development of Autonomous Power Sensor Platform for Low-power Sensors and Actuators), and Kwangwoon University's Excellent Researcher Support Program. The research results were published in the Chemical Engineering Journal by Elsevier, one of the world’s leading journals in chemical engineering (IF: 15.1). Dr. Sohel, the first author, has been a professor at Noakhali Science and Technology University, a public university in Bangladesh, since July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.151050

Structure of the high-output triboelectric nanogenerator with excellent breathability and stretchability and power-free sensor, and example of real-time human activity monitoring applications using this technology.