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 …

Polymeric composites for powder-based additive manufacturing: Materials and applications

S Yuan, F Shen, CK Chua, K Zhou - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
As one of the most important categories in the additive manufacturing (AM) field, powder-
based techniques, such as selective laser sintering, electron beam melting and selective …

Self-healing, anti-freezing, adhesive and remoldable hydrogel sensor with ion-liquid metal dual conductivity for biomimetic skin

Z Zhou, C Qian, W Yuan - Composites Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexible wearable sensors assembled from conductive hydrogels have received great
attention due to their wide application in human-machine interfaces, medical and healthcare …

Origami-inspired electret-based triboelectric generator for biomechanical and ocean wave energy harvesting

K Tao, H Yi, Y Yang, H Chang, J Wu, L Tang, Z Yang… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the critical issues for the conventional TENGs for applications in biomechanical and
blue energy harvesting is to develop adaptive, simple-structured, high performance but low …

An ultra-low-friction triboelectric–electromagnetic hybrid nanogenerator for rotation energy harvesting and self-powered wind speed sensor

P Wang, L Pan, J Wang, M Xu, G Dai, H Zou, K Dong… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are attracting more and more attention since they can
convert various mechanical energies into electric energy. However, in traditional TENGs for …

[HTML][HTML] 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) …

Acoustic-elastic metamaterials and phononic crystals for energy harvesting: A review

G Hu, L Tang, J Liang, C Lan… - Smart Materials and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Metamaterials and phononic crystals (PCs) with artificially designed periodic microstructures
have attracted increasing research interests due to their unique properties that cannot be …

A piezoelectric spring pendulum oscillator used for multi-directional and ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting

Y Wu, J Qiu, S Zhou, H Ji, Y Chen, S Li - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Low frequency vibration is a ubiquitous energy existing in our environment, but a large
efficient harvesting of which remains challenging. This paper presents a simple piezoelectric …

A rotational pendulum based electromagnetic/triboelectric hybrid-generator for ultra-low-frequency vibrations aiming at human motion and blue energy applications

C Hou, T Chen, Y Li, M Huang, Q Shi, H Liu, L Sun… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
There is abundance of low-frequency biomechanical and blue energy that can be harvested
from our ambient environment. Utilization of these energy plays a significant role for the …

An inertial rotary energy harvester for vibrations at ultra-low frequency with high energy conversion efficiency

A Luo, Y Zhang, X Dai, Y Wang, W Xu, Y Lu, M Wang… - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, we have designed, characterized, and optimized an inertial-based rotational
vibration energy harvester device which can effectively harvest energy from vibrations at …