Mechanical intelligent energy harvesting: from methodology to applications

LC Zhao, HX Zou, KX Wei, SX Zhou… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) connects everything with intelligence,
while the increase in energy consumption generated by numerous electronic devices puts …

A review of energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials: state-of-the-art a decade later (2008–2018)

M Safaei, HA Sodano, SR Anton - Smart materials and structures, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Energy harvesting technologies have been explored by researchers for more than two
decades as an alternative to conventional power sources (eg batteries) for small-sized and …

Ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting: Mechanisms, enhancement techniques, and scaling laws

R Sun, S Zhou, L Cheng - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for clean and sustainable energy, self-powered technologies
based on environmental vibrations have attracted a lot of attention recently. Natural vibration …

Acoustic-elastic metamaterials and phononic crystals for energy harvesting: A review

G Hu, L Tang, J Liang, C Lan… - Smart Materials and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Metamaterials and phononic crystals (PCs) with artificially designed periodic microstructures
have attracted increasing research interests due to their unique properties that cannot be …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on nanogenerators and piezotronics

P Basset, SP Beeby, C Bowen, ZJ Chew, A Delbani… - APL materials, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) was first introduced by using piezoelectric nanowires
for converting tiny mechanical energy into electric power. 1 Research in nanogenerators has …

A comb-like beam based piezoelectric system for galloping energy harvesting

G Hu, J Wang, L Tang - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a comb-like beam (CombBeam) based piezoelectric energy harvester
(PEH) for harvesting wind energy by exploiting the galloping mechanism. The CombBeam …

Renewable energy harvesting and absorbing via multi-scale metamaterial systems for Internet of things

T Tan, Z Yan, H Zou, K Ma, F Liu, L Zhao, Z Peng… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Natural and human environments are abundant of unused renewable energy such as
mechanical energy, acoustic energy, electromagnetic energy, thermal energy, etc. The idea …

Graded elastic metasurface for enhanced energy harvesting

JM De Ponti, A Colombi, R Ardito, F Braghin… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In elastic wave systems, combining the powerful concepts of resonance and spatial grading
within structured surface arrays enable resonant metasurfaces to exhibit broadband wave …

Mechanical energy metamaterials in interstellar travel

P Jiao - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanoscale spacecrafts have shed light on an audacious but promising vision for interstellar
travel to neighboring planets beyond the solar system. The nanocrafts can be accelerated to …

Topological rainbow trapping for elastic energy harvesting in graded Su-Schrieffer-Heeger systems

GJ Chaplain, JM De Ponti, G Aguzzi, A Colombi… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We amalgamate two fundamental designs from distinct areas of wave control in physics, and
place them in the setting of elasticity. Graded elastic metasurfaces, so-called metawedges …