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 …

A review of piezoelectric energy harvesters for harvesting wind energy

X Zheng, L He, S Wang, X Liu, R Liu… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) powered by conventional batteries are
disadvantaged in terms of scope of application and environmental friendliness because their …

A low-frequency rotational electromagnetic energy harvester using a magnetic plucking mechanism

G Miao, S Fang, S Wang, S Zhou - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting from rotational motion, such as vehicle tires and rotational devices,
remains a challenge because of the difficulty of balancing the harvesting frequency range …

On the use of metasurface for Vortex-Induced vibration suppression or energy harvesting

J Wang, S Sun, L Tang, G Hu, J Liang - Energy conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper explores the use of metasurface in designing an aerodynamic system for
potential vortex-induced vibration (VIV) suppression or energy harvesting. Four kinds of …

The nexus between vibration-based energy harvesting and structural vibration control: A comprehensive review

Q Cai, S Zhu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the first state-of-the-art review on simultaneous vibration control and
energy harvesting strategy, a multi-disciplinary topic related to structural dynamics …

Hybrid wind energy scavenging by coupling vortex-induced vibrations and galloping

J Wang, S Gu, C Zhang, G Hu, G Chen, K Yang… - Energy Conversion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a hybrid piezoelectric wind energy scavenger with different cross-
sectioned bluff bodies, to enhance the energy scavenging performance by coupling both the …

Hierarchical honeycomb-structured electret/triboelectric nanogenerator for biomechanical and morphing wing energy harvesting

K Tao, Z Chen, H Yi, R Zhang, Q Shen, J Wu, L Tang… - Nano-micro letters, 2021 - Springer
Flexible, compact, lightweight and sustainable power sources are indispensable for modern
wearable and personal electronics and small-unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

Fractal N/MEMS: from pull-in instability to pull-in stability

D Tian, QT Ain, N Anjum, CH He, B Cheng - Fractals, 2021 - World Scientific
Pull-in instability, as an inherent nonlinear problem, continues to become an increasingly
important and interesting topic in the design of electrostatic Nano/Micro-electromechanical …

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 …

Piezoelectric MEMS—Evolution from sensing technology to diversified applications in the 5G/Internet of Things (IoT) era

X Le, Q Shi, P Vachon, EJ Ng… - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The rapid development of the fifth-generation mobile networks (5G) and Internet of Things
(IoT) is inseparable from a large number of miniature, low-cost, and low-power sensors and …