Powering solutions for biomedical sensors and implants inside the human body: A comprehensive review on energy harvesting units, energy storage, and wireless …

S Roy, ANMW Azad, S Baidya… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For implantable medical devices, it is of paramount importance to ensure uninterrupted
energy supply to different circuits and subcircuits. Instead of relying on battery stored energy …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting solutions: A review

C Covaci, A Gontean - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The goal of this paper is to review current methods of energy harvesting, while focusing on
piezoelectric energy harvesting. The piezoelectric energy harvesting technique is based on …

Self-rechargeable cardiac pacemaker system with triboelectric nanogenerators

H Ryu, H Park, MK Kim, B Kim, HS Myoung… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Self-powered implantable devices have the potential to extend device operation time inside
the body and reduce the necessity for high-risk repeated surgery. Without the technological …

Triboelectric nanogenerators as a new energy technology: From fundamentals, devices, to applications

G Zhu, B Peng, J Chen, Q Jing, ZL Wang - Nano Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Contact electrification is coupled with electrostatic induction in developing triboelectric
nanogenerator as a new energy technology. The triboelectric nanogenerator has two basic …

Power approaches for implantable medical devices

A Ben Amar, AB Kouki, H Cao - sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
Implantable medical devices have been implemented to provide treatment and to assess in
vivo physiological information in humans as well as animal models for medical diagnosis …

Toward large-scale energy harvesting by a nanoparticle-enhanced triboelectric nanogenerator

G Zhu, ZH Lin, Q Jing, P Bai, C Pan, Y Yang, Y Zhou… - Nano …, 2013 - ACS Publications
This article describes a simple, cost-effective, and scalable approach to fabricate a
triboelectric nanogenerator (NG) with ultrahigh electric output. Triggered by commonly …

Sliding-triboelectric nanogenerators based on in-plane charge-separation mechanism

S Wang, L Lin, Y Xie, Q Jing, S Niu, ZL Wang - Nano letters, 2013 - ACS Publications
Aiming at harvesting ambient mechanical energy for self-powered systems, triboelectric
nanogenerators (TENGs) have been recently developed as a highly efficient, cost-effective …

A review of human-powered energy harvesting for smart electronics: recent progress and challenges

S Khalid, I Raouf, A Khan, N Kim, HS Kim - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Recently, energy harvesting from human motion has attracted substantial research into its
ability to replace conventional batteries for smart electronics. Human motion exhibits …

Integrated multilayered triboelectric nanogenerator for harvesting biomechanical energy from human motions

P Bai, G Zhu, ZH Lin, Q Jing, J Chen, G Zhang, J Ma… - ACS …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a new flexible multilayered triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) with
extremely low cost, simple structure, small size (3.8 cm× 3.8 cm× 0.95 cm) and lightweight (7 …

A shape‐adaptive thin‐film‐based approach for 50% high‐efficiency energy generation through micro‐grating sliding electrification

G Zhu, YS Zhou, P Bai, XS Meng, Q Jing… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Effectively harvesting ambient mechanical energy is the key for realizing self‐powered and
autonomous electronics, which addresses limitations of batteries and thus has tremendous …