The global energy crisis and environmental pollutions caused mainly by the increased
consumption of nonrenewable energy sources prompted researchers to explore alternative …

In the last three decades, smart materials have become popular. The piezoelectric materials
have shown key characteristics for engineering applications, such as in sensors and …

In this paper, we originally investigate how formulation of abrupt magnetic flux density
change influences the electric outputs, eg open-circuit voltage, power density and charging …

This paper investigates efficient simultaneous energy harvesting and vibration suppression
utilizing a tunable bi-stable magneto-pieozelastic absorber (BMPA). The absorber …

Abstract Structure design of ultra-low wide bandwidth vibrational energy harvesters remains
an open issue. In this research, a statically balanced compliant mechanism (SBCM) is …

A sliding-mode bistable triboelectric nanogenerator (SBTENG) has already been proven to
be highly efficient for harvesting energy from low-frequency vibration. However, a SBTENG …

Electric driverless buses are an important part of future urban transportation. There is a large
amount of inertial kinetic energy wasted during the driving of electric driverless buses …

The ocean is a huge kinetic energy field with considerable energy harvesting potential.
Harvesting renewable ocean wave energy and using it to power electric facilities such as …

Rotational energy harvesting is one of the promising approaches for realizing self-powered
wireless sensor networks. Incorporation of hybrid energy sources and geometric bistable …

Phononic crystal (PnC)-based piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) has been recently
introduced to amplify the input energy fed into PEH devices. If a defect is imposed into a …