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 …

Strategies for effectively harvesting wind energy based on triboelectric nanogenerators

Z Ren, L Wu, Y Pang, W Zhang, R Yang - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind energy has played a reasonable proportion in the current energy structure, extracting
energy from wind sources attracts extensive attention in the era of global carbon neutrality …

The state-of-the-art review on energy harvesting from flow-induced vibrations

J Wang, L Geng, L Ding, H Zhu, D Yurchenko - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, the currently popular flow-induced vibrations energy harvesting technologies
are reviewed, including numerical and experimental endeavors, and some existing or …

Progress in recent research on the design and use of triboelectric nanogenerators for harvesting wind energy

B Shi, Q Wang, H Su, J Li, B Xie, P Wang, J Qiu, C Wu… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Wind energy is a green and sustainable natural source of abundant and widely distributed
energy. The triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a new type of energy conversion device …

Breeze-wind-energy-powered autonomous wireless anemometer based on rolling contact-electrification

X Fu, S Xu, Y Gao, X Zhang, G Liu, H Zhou… - ACS Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has great advantages in harvesting low-frequency
mechanical energy, which is very suitable for energy harvesters and active sensors for …

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 …

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 …

Design, manufacturing and applications of wearable triboelectric nanogenerators

H Wang, M Han, Y Song, H Zhang - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Amid the rapid flourishment of wearable electronics, the issue of power consumption has
become increasingly prominent. With an extremely simple and universal configuration …

Energy harvesting solutions for railway transportation: A comprehensive review

J Zuo, L Dong, F Yang, Z Guo, T Wang, L Zuo - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Railways, as one of the most important forms of transportation, have been developed rapidly
throughout the world. Meanwhile, the energy consumption and carbon emissions of railway …

Vortex-induced vibration triboelectric nanogenerator for low speed wind energy harvesting

L Zhang, B Meng, Y Tian, X Meng, X Lin, Y He, C Xing… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a novel vortex-induced vibration (VIV) based triboelectric nanogenerator
(TENG) that makes it possible for efficient energy harvesting from wind at low speed. A …