Hybrid energy harvesters: toward sustainable energy harvesting

H Ryu, HJ Yoon, SW Kim - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, sustainable green energy harvesting systems have been receiving great attention
for their potential use in self‐powered smart wireless sensor network (WSN) systems. In …

Pyroelectric materials and devices for energy harvesting applications

CR Bowen, J Taylor, E LeBoulbar, D Zabek… - Energy & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This review covers energy harvesting technologies associated with pyroelectric materials
and systems. Such materials have the potential to generate electrical power from thermal …

Knowledge structure and research progress in wind power generation (WPG) from 2005 to 2020 using CiteSpace based scientometric analysis

A Azam, A Ahmed, H Wang, Y Wang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Renewable energy resources have enabled the mitigation of global environmental pollution
and sustainable energy generation. Due to renewability, cleanliness, and vast sustainability …

Energy harvesting research: the road from single source to multisource

Y Bai, H Jantunen, J Juuti - Advanced materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Energy harvesting technology may be considered an ultimate solution to replace batteries
and provide a long‐term power supply for wireless sensor networks. Looking back into its …

Ultra-high thermal effusivity materials for resonant ambient thermal energy harvesting

AL Cottrill, AT Liu, Y Kunai, VB Koman, A Kaplan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Materials science has made progress in maximizing or minimizing the thermal conductivity
of materials; however, the thermal effusivity—related to the product of conductivity and …

Pyroelectric energy conversion and its applications—flexible energy harvesters and sensors

A Thakre, A Kumar, HC Song, DY Jeong, J Ryu - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Among the various forms of natural energies, heat is the most prevalent and least harvested
energy. Scavenging and detecting stray thermal energy for conversion into electrical energy …

Additively manufactured nano-mechanical energy harvesting systems: advancements, potential applications, challenges and future perspectives

A Ahmed, A Azam, Y Wang, Z Zhang, N Li, C Jia… - Nano convergence, 2021 - Springer
Additively manufactured nano-MEH systems are widely used to harvest energy from
renewable and sustainable energy sources such as wind, ocean, sunlight, raindrops, and …

Ferroelectric oxide surface chemistry: water splitting via pyroelectricity

A Kakekhani, S Ismail-Beigi - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
There is widespread interest in finding sustainable replacements for fossil fuels, and hence
hydrogen production via water splitting has received much attention. However, finding …

Wearable thermoelectric power generators combined with flexible supercapacitor for low-power human diagnosis devices

F Deng, H Qiu, J Chen, L Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a wearable thermoelectric power generator using body heat to supply
power to low-power human diagnosis devices (especially sensor nodes), thus a new type of …

Boosting solar-to-pyroelectric energy harvesting via a plasmon-enhanced solar-thermal conversion approach

H Li, H Wang, X Li, J Huang, X Li, SK Boong, HK Lee… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Pyroelectric technology promises the potential transformation of waste heat into useful
electrical energy to address the global energy and environmental crises. However, current …