Energy harvesting and storage with soft and stretchable materials

V Vallem, Y Sargolzaeiaval, M Ozturk… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review highlights various modes of converting ambient sources of energy into electricity
using soft and stretchable materials. These mechanical properties are useful for emerging …

A review on wearable electrospun polymeric piezoelectric sensors and energy harvesters

S Mirjalali, A Mahdavi Varposhti… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, wearable sensors and energy harvesters have shown great potential for a
wide range of applications in personalized healthcare, robotics, and human–machine …

[HTML][HTML] Expedient secondary functions of flexible piezoelectrics for biomedical energy harvesting

Y Wang, M Hong, J Venezuela, T Liu, M Dargusch - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Flexible piezoelectrics realise the conversion between mechanical movements and
electrical power by conformally attaching onto curvilinear surfaces, which are promising for …

Synergistic interaction of Z-scheme 2D/3D g-C3N4/BiOI heterojunction and porous PVDF membrane for greatly improving the photodegradation efficiency of …

Y Cui, L Yang, J Zheng, Z Wang, B Li, Y Yan… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Designing photocatalytic membranes with excellent photocatalytic and self-cleaning ability
based on the synergistic effect between the crystal structure of membrane matrix and …

Recent developments of hybrid piezo–triboelectric nanogenerators for flexible sensors and energy harvesters

J Zhang, Y He, C Boyer, K Kalantar-Zadeh… - Nanoscale …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Hybrid piezo–triboelectric nanogenerators constitute a new class of self-powered systems
that exploit the synergy of piezoelectric and triboelectric mechanisms to improve energy …

A review on 3D printed piezoelectric energy harvesters: materials, 3D printing techniques, and applications

A Megdich, M Habibi, L Laperrière - Materials Today Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
The worldwide energy and environmental pollution crisis is caused partly by the rising
usage of non-renewable energy sources. Researchers try to find alternative energy systems …

[HTML][HTML] Stretchable strain sensors with dentate groove structure for enhanced sensing recoverability

X Cui, Y Jiang, Z Xu, M Xi, Y Jiang, P Song… - Composites Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Stretchable strain sensors based on conductive polymer composites commonly utilize
elastic polymers as the matrix. However, elastic polymers always show strong mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] High-strength, flexible and cycling-stable piezo-resistive polymeric foams derived from thermoplastic polyurethane and multi-wall carbon nanotubes

Y Fei, F Chen, W Fang, L Xu, S Ruan, X Liu… - Composites Part B …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, high strength, flexible and cycling-stable piezoresistive thermoplastic
polyurethane (TPU)/multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) composite foams were …

Thermal analysis on MHD flow of ethylene glycol-based BNNTs nanofluids via peristaltically induced electroosmotic pumping in a curved microchannel

J Akram, NS Akbar, D Tripathi - Arabian Journal for Science and …, 2022 - Springer
This investigation aims to analyze the effect of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) suspension
on the heat transfer performance of ethylene glycol (EG) based nanofluids flow curved …

Impact of PVDF and its copolymer-based nanocomposites for flexible and wearable energy harvesters

SS Panicker, SP Rajeev, V Thomas - Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects, 2023 - Elsevier
Encountering the consumption of fossil fuels on a large scale and contamination of the
environment due to chemical batteries, along with the rapid growth of various wearable …