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 …

Smart textiles for electricity generation

G Chen, Y Li, M Bick, J Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Textiles have been concomitant of human civilization for thousands of years. With the
advances in chemistry and materials, integrating textiles with energy harvesters will provide …

A comprehensive review on piezoelectric energy harvesting technology: Materials, mechanisms, and applications

H Liu, J Zhong, C Lee, SW Lee, L Lin - Applied physics reviews, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The last decade has witnessed significant advances in energy harvesting technologies as a
possible alternative to provide a continuous power supply for small, low-power devices in …

[HTML][HTML] Reviving vibration energy harvesting and self-powered sensing by a triboelectric nanogenerator

J Chen, ZL Wang - Joule, 2017 - cell.com
Vibration energy harvesting and sensing is a traditional and growing research field in which
various working mechanisms and designs have been developed for an improved …

A review on ZnO-based piezoelectric nanogenerators: Synthesis, characterization techniques, performance enhancement and applications

AT Le, M Ahmadipour, SY Pung - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2020 - Elsevier
ZnO nanorods (NRs) have received a tremendous amount of attention in the last decade for
mechanical energy harvesting devices due to its outstanding semiconducting and …

Recent advances in self‐powered tribo‐/piezoelectric energy harvesters: all‐in‐one package for future smart technologies

SK Karan, S Maiti, JH Lee, YK Mishra… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electric devices has become a necessity in modern smart societies. The energy research
community is continually exploring new solutions that can be employed as potential and …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid piezoelectric-triboelectric nanogenerators for flexible electronics: Recent advances and perspectives

S Sriphan, N Vittayakorn - Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and …, 2022 - Elsevier
For several decades, a focus has been placed on the development of future flexible
electronics, including electronic skin, wearable devices, environmental monitoring systems …

Fiber‐based wearable electronics: a review of materials, fabrication, devices, and applications

W Zeng, L Shu, Q Li, S Chen, F Wang… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Fiber‐based structures are highly desirable for wearable electronics that are expected to be
light‐weight, long‐lasting, flexible, and conformable. Many fibrous structures have been …

High efficiency bi-harvesting light/vibration energy using piezoelectric zinc oxide nanorods for dye decomposition

J Ma, J Ren, Y Jia, Z Wu, L Chen, NO Haugen… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, the bi-harvesting of light and vibration energy is realized in hydrothermally-
synthesized ZnO nanorods which is designed to achieve photo-/piezo-bi-catalysis for dye …

Bioinspired electronics for artificial sensory systems

YH Jung, B Park, JU Kim, T Kim - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Humans have a myriad of sensory receptors in different sense organs that form the five
traditionally recognized senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. These receptors …