Marine buoys

A marine technology gains new power!

What are marine buoys?

Wave buoys can be categorized in several ways:

  • Slope- or particle-following;
  • Deep or coastal;
  • Multi-purpose or, specifically, a waves-only platform;
  • Manufactured by a commercial vendor or independently designed and fabricated by the agency deploying it;
  • Directional or non-directional;
  • Ground or satellite link;
  • Large or small.

Why incorporate TENGs?

Our proposal is to break from traditional wave energy harvesting systems and advance into the emerging field of high efficiency energy harvesting based on nanotechnology.

In particular, triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are a new technology capable of harvesting mechanical energy from all the available sources of motion at a great efficiency.

They can constitute an alternative to the use of solar panels, aiming at overcoming the present limitations on power supply, size, efficiency and price.

When two become one!

"The first marine buoy prototype integrating highly efficient energy harvesting
systems based on triboelectric nanogenerators!"
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