A review of energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials: state-of-the-art a decade later (2008–2018)

M Safaei, HA Sodano, SR Anton - Smart materials and structures, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Energy harvesting technologies have been explored by researchers for more than two
decades as an alternative to conventional power sources (eg batteries) for small-sized and …

Piezoelectric materials for catalytic/photocatalytic removal of pollutants: Recent advances and outlook

Z Liang, CF Yan, S Rtimi, J Bandara - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019 - Elsevier
The accumulation of various contaminants in air, soil and water is threatening the natural
environment. The remediation of the environmental contaminations is today an urge. Among …

Controlled vertically aligned structures in polymer composites: natural inspiration, structural processing, and functional application

C Lei, Z Xie, K Wu, Q Fu - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Vertically aligned structures, which are a series of characteristic conformations with
thickness‐direction alignment, interconnection, or assembly of filler in polymeric composite …

A hyper‐stretchable elastic‐composite energy harvester

CK Jeong, J Lee, S Han, J Ryu, GT Hwang… - Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201500367 cost-effective and large-area energy harvesting without any
vacuum process.[27–32] Although NCGs have been regarded as a concept of stretchy …

Porous, multi-layered piezoelectric composites based on highly oriented PZT/PVDF electrospinning fibers for high-performance piezoelectric nanogenerators

X Du, Z Zhou, Z Zhang, L Yao, Q Zhang… - Journal of Advanced …, 2022 - Springer
Piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENGs) that can harvest mechanical energy from ambient
environment have broad prospects for multi-functional applications. Here, multi-layered …

Flexible three-dimensional interconnected piezoelectric ceramic foam based composites for highly efficient concurrent mechanical and thermal energy harvesting

G Zhang, P Zhao, X Zhang, K Han, T Zhao… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Flexible piezoelectric materials are pivotal to a variety of emerging applications ranging from
wearable electronic devices, sensors to biomedical devices. Current ceramic-polymer …

Advances in ultrasensitive piezoresistive sensors: from conventional to flexible and stretchable applications

T Nguyen, T Dinh, HP Phan, TA Pham, NT Nguyen… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The piezoresistive effect has been a dominant mechanical sensing principle that has been
widely employed in a range of sensing applications. This transducing concept still receives …

Strong piezo-electro-chemical effect of piezoelectric BaTiO3 nanofibers for vibration-catalysis

X Xu, Z Wu, L Xiao, Y Jia, J Ma, F Wang, L Wang… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The piezo-electro-chemical effect, a phenomenon of vibration exciting chemical reaction, is
hopeful for application in vibration-catalysis. In this work, BaTiO 3 nanofibers were …

Ultrathin inorganic molecular nanowire based on polyoxometalates

Z Zhang, T Murayama, M Sadakane, H Ariga… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The development of metal oxide-based molecular wires is important for fundamental
research and potential practical applications. However, examples of these materials are …

Ultrafast Dynamic Piezoresistive Response of Graphene-Based Cellular Elastomers.

L Qiu, Y Tang, JZ Liu, T Alan, J Ding… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2015 - europepmc.org
Ultralight graphene-based cellular elastomers are found to exhibit nearly frequency-
independent piezoresistive behaviors. Surpassing the mechanoreceptors in the human skin …