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 …

Progress in recent research on the design and use of triboelectric nanogenerators for harvesting wind energy

B Shi, Q Wang, H Su, J Li, B Xie, P Wang, J Qiu, C Wu… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Wind energy is a green and sustainable natural source of abundant and widely distributed
energy. The triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a new type of energy conversion device …

Flexible seaweed-like triboelectric nanogenerator as a wave energy harvester powering marine internet of things

Y Wang, X Liu, Y Wang, H Wang, H Wang, SL Zhang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The marine internet of things (MIoT), an increasingly important foundation for ocean
development and protection, consists of a variety of marine distributed sensors under water …

Improving wastewater treatment by triboelectric-photo/electric coupling effect

F Dong, Z Pang, S Yang, Q Lin, S Song, C Li, X Ma… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The ability to meet higher effluent quality requirements and the reduction of energy
consumption are the biggest challenges in wastewater treatment worldwide. A large …

Investigating the output performance of triboelectric nanogenerators with single/double-sided interlayer

C Xin, Z Li, Q Zhang, Y Peng, H Guo, S Xie - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
To enhance the electric outputs of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG), embedding
interlayers provides an effective strategy. However, the proposed researches mainly focus …

A novel humidity resisting and wind direction adapting flag-type triboelectric nanogenerator for wind energy harvesting and speed sensing

Y Wang, E Yang, T Chen, J Wang, Z Hu, J Mi, X Pan… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstracts Wind energy harvesting from ambient environment by TENG is highly desirable for
powering the wireless sensing system. However, humid environment and variable wind …

Breeze-wind-energy-powered autonomous wireless anemometer based on rolling contact-electrification

X Fu, S Xu, Y Gao, X Zhang, G Liu, H Zhou… - ACS Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has great advantages in harvesting low-frequency
mechanical energy, which is very suitable for energy harvesters and active sensors for …

Harvesting multidirectional breeze energy and self‐powered intelligent fire detection systems based on triboelectric nanogenerator and fluid‐dynamic modeling

X Zhang, J Hu, Q Yang, H Yang, H Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fire warning and monitoring are very important for public safety and environmental
protection. However, most of the proposed wind energy conversion devices based on …

Recent progress in the energy harvesting technology—from self-powered sensors to self-sustained IoT, and new applications

L Liu, X Guo, W Liu, C Lee - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
With the fast development of energy harvesting technology, micro-nano or scale-up energy
harvesters have been proposed to allow sensors or internet of things (IoT) applications with …

Perspectives in flow-induced vibration energy harvesting

J Wang, D Yurchenko, G Hu, L Zhao, L Tang… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Flow-induced vibration (FIV) energy harvesting has attracted extensive research interest in
the past two decades. Remarkable research achievements and contributions from different …