Promoting smart cities into the 5G era with multi-field Internet of Things (IoT) applications powered with advanced mechanical energy harvesters

L Liu, X Guo, C Lee - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Along with the arrival of the 5G era, sustainable and renewable energy supplies have
become urgent demands towards plentifully distributed devices utilized for constructing …

Mechanical intelligent energy harvesting: from methodology to applications

LC Zhao, HX Zou, KX Wei, SX Zhou… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) connects everything with intelligence,
while the increase in energy consumption generated by numerous electronic devices puts …

Ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting: Mechanisms, enhancement techniques, and scaling laws

R Sun, S Zhou, L Cheng - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for clean and sustainable energy, self-powered technologies
based on environmental vibrations have attracted a lot of attention recently. Natural vibration …

A triboelectric–electromagnetic hybrid nanogenerator with broadband working range for wind energy harvesting and a self-powered wind speed sensor

C Ye, K Dong, J An, J Yi, X Peng, C Ning… - ACS Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Wind energy plays an increasingly important role in alleviating the shortage of fossil fuel
energy because of the emerging promising technologies such as electromagnetic …

Tuned bistable nonlinear energy sink for simultaneously improved vibration suppression and energy harvesting

S Fang, K Chen, J Xing, S Zhou, WH Liao - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the combination of nonlinear vibration suppression (VS) and energy harvesting (EH)
has received great attention in recent years, the strategy to simultaneously improve the …

Design, modeling and experiments of a novel biaxial-pendulum vibration energy harvester

H Lou, T Wang, S Zhu - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Pendulum-based vibration energy harvesting is a promising technology to supply energy for
floating buoys and small ocean vehicles. However, the energy harvester with a uniaxial …

Responses, optimization and prediction of energy harvesters under galloping and base excitations

D Huang, J Han, W Li, H Deng, S Zhou - Communications in Nonlinear …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the complexification-averaging method is firstly used to derive the theoretical
solutions and analyze the dynamical performance of the energy harvesters under galloping …

Snap-through triboelectric nanogenerator with magnetic coupling buckled bistable mechanism for harvesting rotational energy

Q Bai, XW Liao, ZW Chen, CZ Gan, HX Zou, KX Wei… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a snap-through triboelectric nanogenerator with magnetic coupling and buckled
bistable mechanism to harvest rotational energy (ST-RTENG). The buckled bistable beam …

An eccentric mass-based rotational energy harvester for capturing ultralow-frequency mechanical energy

K Fan, J Hao, C Wang, C Zhang, W Wang… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The omnipresent ultralow-frequency vibrations and swings contain a huge amount of
mechanical energy, but the low harvesting efficiency hinders their application as a practical …

Magnetic frequency modulation mechanism of a non-contact magnetism-toggled rotary energy harvester coupling piezoelectric effect

C Hou, X Shan, X Zhang, Z Min, H Song… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Harvesting Energy from the ambient environment is a promising technology for promoting
the development of the wireless sensor network or portable electronic devices. In this work …