Recent advancements in bulk metallic glasses and their applications: a review

MM Khan, A Nemati, ZU Rahman… - Critical Reviews in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs), that display extraordinary properties of high strength,
corrosion resistance, polymer-like formability, and excellent magnetic properties, are …

A review on heat and mechanical energy harvesting from human–Principles, prototypes and perspectives

M Zhou, MSH Al-Furjan, J Zou, W Liu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
The rapid development of smart electronics has enabled their applications into such fields
as portable instruments, wearable electronic devices, implantable medical devices and even …

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 …

An inertial rotary energy harvester for vibrations at ultra-low frequency with high energy conversion efficiency

A Luo, Y Zhang, X Dai, Y Wang, W Xu, Y Lu, M Wang… - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, we have designed, characterized, and optimized an inertial-based rotational
vibration energy harvester device which can effectively harvest energy from vibrations at …

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 …

Design and experiment of a human-limb driven, frequency up-converted electromagnetic energy harvester

MA Halim, H Cho, JY Park - Energy Conversion and Management, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a frequency up-converted electromagnetic energy harvester that generates
significant power from human-limb motion (hand-shaking). Because the power generated by …

Impact-based piezoelectric vibration energy harvester

S Ju, CH Ji - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents an indirect impact-based piezoelectric vibration energy harvester using
a freely movable metal sphere as a proof mass and an MFC (Macro Fiber Composite) beam …

Magnetically modulated orbit for human motion energy harvesting

LC Zhao, HX Zou, QH Gao, G Yan, FR Liu… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Human energy harvesting for powering wearable or portable electronics has been
extensively studied. We propose an electromagnetic energy harvester with a magnetic orbit …

Survey of electromagnetic and magnetoelectric vibration energy harvesters for low frequency excitation

S Naifar, S Bradai, C Viehweger, O Kanoun - Measurement, 2017 - Elsevier
The main challenge in the design of vibration energy harvesters is the optimization of energy
outcome relative to the applied excitation. This depends strongly on the used energy …

Magnetoelectric devices based on magnetoelectric bulk composites

Q Mao, J Wu, Z Hu, Y Xu, Y Du, Y Hao… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Magnetoelectric (ME) composites of bulk structures show strong ME coupling performance,
and thus magnetoelectric bulk composites and their related devices have been attracting …