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 …

Biomechanical energy harvesting for wearable and mobile devices: State-of-the-art and future directions

M Liu, F Qian, J Mi, L Zuo - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Wearable and mobile devices, such as smartphones, smartwatches, wearable medical
devices, etc., have become an important part of our daily life. Most of these devices are …

Self-powered and self-sensing devices based on human motion

Z Lai, J Xu, CR Bowen, S Zhou - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
The emergence of human-motion-based energy harvesters is a reflection of the need to
develop future energy supplies for small-scale human-motion-based self-powered and self …

Hybrid triboelectric-electromagnetic nanogenerators for mechanical energy harvesting: A review

JV Vidal, V Slabov, AL Kholkin, MPS Dos Santos - Nano-Micro Letters, 2021 - Springer
Motion-driven electromagnetic-triboelectric energy generators (E-TENGs) hold a great
potential to provide higher voltages, higher currents and wider operating bandwidths than …

Electromagnetic energy harvesting using magnetic levitation architectures: A review

P Carneiro, MPS dos Santos, A Rodrigues… - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Motion-driven electromagnetic energy harvesters have the ability to provide low-cost and
customizable electric powering. They are a well-suited technological solution to …

An electromagnetic rotational energy harvester using sprung eccentric rotor, driven by pseudo-walking motion

MA Halim, R Rantz, Q Zhang, L Gu, K Yang, S Roundy - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, an electromagnetic energy harvesting device using a sprung eccentric rotor has
been designed, optimized and characterized to harvest power from pseudo-walking signals …

Wearable biomechanical energy harvesting technologies

YM Choi, MG Lee, Y Jeon - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
Energy harvesting has been attracting attention as a technology that is capable of replacing
or supplementing a battery with the development of various mobile electronics. In …

[HTML][HTML] A two-dimensional electromagnetic vibration energy harvester with variable stiffness

C Imbaquingo, C Bahl, AR Insinga, R Bjørk - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This work investigates the performance of an electromagnetic vibration harvester for two-
dimensional vibrations with variable magnetic stiffness and electromagnetic damping. The …

Bionic flutter wing piezoelectric-electromagnetic composite energy harvesting system

F Bo, F Jiwen, Z Jiuchun, L Chong, W Jia… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The bionic structure has great potential in the field of energy harvesting. Inspired by the
fluttering structure of dipteran insects, this paper proposes a novel bionic multi-domain …

Electromagnetic vibration energy harvester using magnetic fluid as lubricant and liquid spring

J Yu, D Li, S Li, Z Xiang, Z He, J Shang, Y Wu… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Using vibration energy harvester (VEH) to achieve self-power supply is an effectively way to
ensure long-term use of electronic devices. In this paper, an electromagnetic VEH using …