Hybrid energy harvesters: toward sustainable energy harvesting

H Ryu, HJ Yoon, SW Kim - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, sustainable green energy harvesting systems have been receiving great attention
for their potential use in self‐powered smart wireless sensor network (WSN) systems. In …

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 …

Piezoelectric nanogenerators–a review of nanostructured piezoelectric energy harvesters

J Briscoe, S Dunn - Nano Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
A huge number of piezoelectric materials have been demonstrated since the discovery of
piezoelectricity over a century ago. The use of nanostructured piezoelectrics, however, is a …

[PDF][PDF] Rapid fabrication technique for interpenetrated ZnO nanotetrapod networks for fast UV sensors

D Gedamu, I Paulowicz, S Kaps, O Lupan, S Wille… - Adv. Mater, 2014 - academia.edu
Recent developments on the synthesis of networked nanostructures have added new
amplitudes for designing multifunctional devices, including sensors and UV photodetectors …

Electroactive polymers for sensing

T Wang, M Farajollahi, YS Choi, IT Lin… - Interface …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Electromechanical coupling in electroactive polymers (EAPs) has been widely applied for
actuation and is also being increasingly investigated for sensing chemical and mechanical …

Intelligent wearable devices based on nanomaterials and nanostructures for healthcare

L Xie, Z Zhang, Q Wu, Z Gao, G Mi, R Wang, H Sun… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Emerging classes of flexible electronic sensors as alternatives to conventional rigid sensors
offer a powerful set of capabilities for detecting and quantifying physiological and physical …

Unidirectional High‐Power Generation via Stress‐Induced Dipole Alignment from ZnSnO3 Nanocubes/Polymer Hybrid Piezoelectric Nanogenerator

KY Lee, D Kim, JH Lee, TY Kim… - Advanced Functional …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The extremely stable high‐power generation from hybrid piezoelectric nanogenerator (HP‐
NG) based on a composite of single‐crystalline piezoelectric perovskite zinc stannate …

Transparent flexible stretchable piezoelectric and triboelectric nanogenerators for powering portable electronics

KY Lee, MK Gupta, SW Kim - Nano Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Transparent flexible and stretchable nanogenerators (NGs) that harvest various types of
mechanical energy exhibit a great potential for powering low-power portable devices and …

Sensing of ultraviolet light: a transition from conventional to self-powered photodetector

MF Al Fattah, AA Khan, H Anabestani, MM Rana… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Clouds in the sky pass almost 80% of ultraviolet (UV) radiation to the earth's surface, which
has a significant impact on humankind. Conventional UV photodetectors (PDs) require an …

PVDF-based ferroelectric polymers and dielectric elastomers for sensor and actuator applications: a review

JH Bae, SH Chang - Functional Composites and Structures, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Electroactive polymers (EAPs) are materials that respond to electrical stimulation by
exhibiting significantly large strains (to a maximum of a few hundred%) and vice versa …