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Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Information Security and Identification

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Information security and identification have become a crucial concern as the internet widely penetrates into various aspects of modern society over the last two decades, whether in military or civilian scenarios. In response to this problem, the rapidly developing triboelectric nanogenerators are regarded as one of the promising and effective solutions, due to their outstanding capabilities to capture and deliver mobile data sources which embed secret information and personal characteristics. Therefore, this chapter introduces several works about triboelectric nanogenerators, which are demonstrated to construct information security or/and identification systems for information security and identification. As for the triboelectric nanogenerators for information security, we mainly summarize them into two essential parts, i.e., triboelectric nanogenerator-based coding technologies and triboelectric nanogenerator-based sensing technologies. Specifically, the ability of the triboelectric nanogenerators to generate and recognize coded information endows them with outstanding coding capability for information security. It is worth mentioning that the coded information is always achieved by designing the number, position, and shape of electrodes and arranging sensitive units. The merit of the triboelectric nanogenerators to capture and deliver unique multivariate information from the user demonstrates the feasibility of triboelectric nanogenerators being self-powered sensors for information security. As for the triboelectric nanogenerators for identification, the triboelectric nanogenerator-based analogue identification technologies and triboelectric nanogenerator-based digital identification technologies are emphasized in this subsection. For analogue identification, the triboelectric nanogenerators are verified to monitor biometric behavior and directly authenticate the user. Different from the analogue identification technologies that directly use the generated signals with unique features in waveform and amplitude, the generated triboelectric outputs could be also transduced to digital signals “1” or “0” for high-precision digital identification. Finally, all-in-one triboelectric nanogenerator-based smart microsystems for information security and identification are summarized, in which the triboelectric nanogenerators could act as energy harvesters, self-powered sensors, secret information generators, or verifiers for information security and user identification.

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    Xiaosheng Zhang

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    Haixia Zhang

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  1. Beijing Inst of Nanoenergy &Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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    Ya Yang

  3. Beijing Inst of Nanoenergy & Nanosystems, University of Chinese Academy of Sc, Beijing, China

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Zhang, X., Zhang, H. (2023). Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Information Security and Identification. 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_21-1

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