Piezoelectric nanomaterials activated by ultrasound: the pathway from discovery to future clinical adoption

A Cafarelli, A Marino, L Vannozzi, J Puigmartí-Luis… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrical stimulation has shown great promise in biomedical applications, such as
regenerative medicine, neuromodulation, and cancer treatment. Yet, the use of electrical …

High-electromechanical performance for high-power piezoelectric applications: Fundamental, progress, and perspective

L Chen, H Liu, H Qi, J Chen - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric materials with excellent electromechanical performance are widely used as
core components in high-power applications such as ultrasonic transducers, piezoelectric …

Hybrid lead-free polymer-based nanocomposites with improved piezoelectric response for biomedical energy-harvesting applications: A review

RA Surmenev, T Orlova, RV Chernozem, AA Ivanova… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Lead-free alternative materials for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy
through piezoelectric transduction are of significant value in a diverse range of technological …

A review of advances in multifunctional XTiO3 perovskite-type oxides as piezo-photocatalysts for environmental remediation and energy production

R Djellabi, MF Ordonez, F Conte, E Falletta… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over more than three decades, the field of engineering of photocatalytic materials with
unique properties and enhanced performance has received a huge attention. In this regard …

A review on mechanisms for piezoelectric-based energy harvesters

H Elahi, M Eugeni, P Gaudenzi - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
From last few decades, piezoelectric materials have played a vital role as a mechanism of
energy harvesting, as they have the tendency to absorb energy from the environment and …

A review of human-powered energy harvesting for smart electronics: recent progress and challenges

S Khalid, I Raouf, A Khan, N Kim, HS Kim - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Recently, energy harvesting from human motion has attracted substantial research into its
ability to replace conventional batteries for smart electronics. Human motion exhibits …

High-performance PZT-based stretchable piezoelectric nanogenerator

X Niu, W Jia, S Qian, J Zhu, J Zhang… - ACS Sustainable …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Stretchable piezoelectric nanogenerators are highly desirable for power supply of flexible
electronics. Piezoelectric composite material is the most effective strategy to render …

A review of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting with magnetic coupling based on different structural characteristics

J Jiang, S Liu, L Feng, D Zhao - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting technologies have attracted a lot of attention in
recent decades, and the harvesters have been applied successfully in various fields, such …

Development of a nanopositioning platform with large travel range based on bionic quadruped piezoelectric actuator

J Deng, Y Liu, S Zhang, J Li - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A piezoelectric platform driven by a bionic quadruped piezoelectric actuator is developed. It
uses the operating principle of combining bionic walking and swinging actuation modes to …

On nonlocal mechanics of curved elastic beams

R Barretta, FM de Sciarra, MS Vaccaro - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Curved beams are basic structural components of Nano-Electro-Mechanical-Systems
(NEMS) whose design requires appropriate modelling of scale effects. In the present paper …