Perspectives on recent advancements in energy harvesting, sensing and bio-medical applications of piezoelectric gels

T Vijayakanth, S Shankar, G Finkelstein-Zuta… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of next-generation bioelectronics, as well as the powering of consumer
and medical devices, require power sources that are soft, flexible, extensible, and even …

Mechanical intelligent energy harvesting: from methodology to applications

LC Zhao, HX Zou, KX Wei, SX Zhou… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) connects everything with intelligence,
while the increase in energy consumption generated by numerous electronic devices puts …

Flexible ultrasound-induced retinal stimulating piezo-arrays for biomimetic visual prostheses

L Jiang, G Lu, Y Zeng, Y Sun, H Kang, J Burford… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electronic visual prostheses, or biomimetic eyes, have shown the feasibility of restoring
functional vision in the blind through electrical pulses to initiate neural responses artificially …

Bond engineering of molecular ferroelectrics renders soft and high-performance piezoelectric energy harvesting materials

Y Hu, K Parida, H Zhang, X Wang, Y Li, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical stress to electrical energy and thus are widely
used in energy harvesting and wearable devices. However, in the piezoelectric family, there …

Remarkable enhancement of piezoelectric performance by heavy halogen substitution in hybrid perovskite ferroelectrics

XG Chen, YY Tang, HP Lv, XJ Song… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Piezoelectric materials that enable electromechanical conversion have great application
value in actuators, transducers, sensors, and energy harvesters. Large piezoelectric (d 33) …

3-DOF X-structured piezoelectric harvesters for multidirectional low-frequency vibration energy harvesting

MAA Abdelkareem, X Jing, ABM Eldaly… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nonlinear energy harvesters with specially-designed nonlinear characteristics (eg, quasi-
zero stiffness, multi-stability, and internal resonance) have been extensively studied to …

Hierarchically interconnected piezoceramic textile with a balanced performance in piezoelectricity, flexibility, toughness, and air permeability

Y Hong, B Wang, Z Long, Z Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Softening of piezoelectric materials facilitates the development of flexible wearables and
energy harvesting devices. However, as one of the most competitive candidates …

Thermoelectric, piezoelectric and photovoltaic harvesting technologies for pavement engineering

J Wang, F Xiao, H Zhao - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
With the advent of the electric vehicle era, the potential function of monitoring,
communication, and energy supply of the pavement system has received utmost research …

Harnessing piezoelectric and flexoelectric synergies in one-dimensional heterostructure nanofibers for nano-energy harvesting and self-powered sensors

H Wang, Z Li, S Shi, X Fan, Z Sun, J Liu, P Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric materials are based on the conversion between mechanical and electrical
energy, which is enormous potential for application in developing flexible self-powered …

[HTML][HTML] On a nonlinear broadband piezoelectric energy harvester with a coupled beam array

HK Shim, S Sun, HS Kim, DG Lee, YJ Lee, JS Jang… - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A conventional energy harvester usually has narrow operational bandwidth, which makes it
difficult to harvest energy with varying frequencies in the actual field. Herein, a nonlinear …