In the field of energy harvesting applications, nanogenerators (NG) have resulted a revolution [161]. The first NG was introduced by Wang and his group in 2006, which successfully used AFM tip to harvest mechanical energy by deflecting mechanism of ZnO nanowires in contact mode [162].
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