Evolution of micro-nano energy harvesting technology—scavenging energy from diverse sources towards self-sustained micro/nano systems

X Le, X Guo, C Lee - Nanoenergy Advances, 2023 - mdpi.com
Facing the energy consumption of a huge number of distributed wireless Internet of Things
(IoT) sensor nodes, scavenging energy from the ambient environment to power these …

Electron trapping & blocking effect enabled by MXene/TiO2 intermediate layer for charge regulation of triboelectric nanogenerators

X Chen, Y Liu, Y Sun, T Zhao, C Zhao, TA Khattab… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
As the existence of interfacial electric field, the surface charges of triboelectric
nanogenerators (TENGs) would diffuse into air or tribo-material interior, resulting in the …

Laminated triboelectric nanogenerator for enhanced self-powered pressure-sensing performance by charge regulation

R Xu, L Zhu, Q Zhang, Z Wang, L Shen… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Triboelectric sensors provide an effective approach to solving the power supply problem for
distributed sensing nodes. However, the poor stability and repeatability of the output signal …

Self-powered Internet of Things sensing node based on triboelectric nanogenerator for sustainable environmental monitoring

Y Qin, X Fu, Y Lin, Z Wang, J Cao, C Zhang - Nano Research, 2023 - Springer
The myriad sensing nodes in the Internet of Things (IoT) are mainly powered by battery,
which has limited the lifespan and increased the maintenance costs. Herein, a self-powered …

Brightness-enhanced electroluminescence driven by triboelectric nanogenerators through permittivity manipulation and impedance matching

M Gu, Y Chen, S Gu, C Wang, L Chen, H Shen, G Chen… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Triboelectric nanogenerator-driven electroluminescence (TDEL) that can convert human
kinetic energy into visible light has attracted extensive attention in wearable electronics …

Emerging direct current triboelectric nanogenerator for high-entropy mechanical energy harvesting

J Chen, RL Guo, HY Guo - Science China Technological Sciences, 2024 - Springer
In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), the provision of sustainable power to distributed,
mobile, and low-power-consumption electronic devices is a critical challenge. To overcome …

Capacitive Pressure Sensor Combining Dual Dielectric Layers with Integrated Composite Electrode for Wearable Healthcare Monitoring

X Li, Y Liu, Y Ding, M Zhang, Z Lin, Y Hao… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Foot activity can reflect numerous physiological abnormalities in the human body, making
gait a valuable metric in health monitoring. Research on flexible sensors for gait monitoring …

The MnAl-alloy nanoparticles incorporated PVDF-based piezoelectric nanogenerator as a self-powered real-time pedometer sensor

T Das, SN Rout, A Dev, M Kar - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This study introduces a flexible, sensitive, and cost-effective hybrid piezoelectric
nanogenerator (PENG) by integrating MnAl-alloy nanoparticles into a poly (vinylidene …

A battery-free music-driven humidity sensor for intelligent wearable sensing system in smart diaper

Y Peng, Z Long, S Liang, T Zhong… - Smart Materials and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A potential intelligent multifunctional diaper with the integration of flexible sensors and data
processing/transmitting units may have the functions of monitoring the urination of babies …

Synthesis of shape-tunable PbZrTiO3 nanocrystals with lattice variations for piezoelectric energy harvesting and human motion detection

YJ Chuang, A Pal, BH Chen, S Jena, S Suresh… - Chemical …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
PbZr0. 7Ti0. 3O3 cubes with tunable sizes and cuboids have been hydrothermally
synthesized. PbZrTiO3 cubes with three different Zr: Ti atomic percentages were also …