A paradigm shift has emerged over the last decade pointing to an exciting research area
dealing with the harnessing of elastic structural instabilities for'smart'purposes in a variety of …

Flow-induced energy harvesting has attracted more and more attention among researchers
in both fields of the wind and the fluid. Piezoelectric energy harvesters and triboelectric …

Jellyfish are energy-efficient swimmers due to the muscle-powered flapping of their soft bell
that facilitates a unique energy recapture mechanism. In this paper, we present a bio …

Electroactive polymer (EAP) is a polymer that reacts to electrical stimuli, such as voltage,
and can be divided into electronic and ionic EAP by an electrical energy transfer mechanism …

Although efforts to model the electrochemical behavior of ionomeric polymer-metal
composite (IPMC) devices through electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) have …

Soft ionic materials combine charged mobile species and tailored polymer structures in a
manner that enables a wide array of functional devices. Traditional metal and silicon …

This paper describes a piezoelectric energy harvester employing a snap-through buckling
(STB) mechanism for frequency-up conversion (FuC). The harvester consists of two main …

Rotational Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting (RPZTEH) is widely used due to mechanical
rotational input power availability in industrial and natural environments. This paper reviews …

Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) were discovered about twenty five years ago by
Prof. Oguro and his team in Japan [1], and evidence about metalizing ionomer membranes …

Energy harvesting using cantilever piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters excited by
Gaussian broadband random base excitation is considered. The optimal design and …