A review of flow-induced vibration energy harvesters

X Ma, S Zhou - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of wireless sensor networks, medical equipment, and
microelectromechanical systems, providing clean and self-sustained energy for these …

Multistable vibration energy harvesters: Principle, progress, and perspectives

S Zhou, M Lallart, A Erturk - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2022 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesting is a process by which ambient mechanical energy from
environment or host structures is converted into usable energy (usually, but not always …

[HTML][HTML] Rotational energy harvesting for self-powered sensing

H Fu, X Mei, D Yurchenko, S Zhou, S Theodossiades… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Advances in wireless sensors, biomedical devices, and micro-robotics exert more pressure
on creating reliable, miniaturized, and self-sustained energy supply solutions for these micro …

Nonlinear vibration energy harvesting and vibration suppression technologies: Designs, analysis, and applications

T Yang, S Zhou, S Fang, W Qin, DJ Inman - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Limited by the structure, the high-efficiency vibration energy harvesting and vibration
suppression have always been a theoretical bottleneck and technical challenge in this field …

A low-frequency rotational electromagnetic energy harvester using a magnetic plucking mechanism

G Miao, S Fang, S Wang, S Zhou - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting from rotational motion, such as vehicle tires and rotational devices,
remains a challenge because of the difficulty of balancing the harvesting frequency range …

[HTML][HTML] A review on vibration-based piezoelectric energy harvesting from the aspect of compliant mechanisms

H Liang, G Hao, OZ Olszewski - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2021 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEHs) promote the construction of a smarter world through
powering electric devices with energy scavenged from environmental vibrations by means of …

A hybrid piezo-dielectric wind energy harvester for high-performance vortex-induced vibration energy harvesting

Z Lai, S Wang, L Zhu, G Zhang, J Wang, K Yang… - … Systems and Signal …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel hybrid piezo-dielectric (PD) wind energy harvester, to efficiently
harvest the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) energy from low-speed wind. The hybrid PD …

Hybrid wind energy scavenging by coupling vortex-induced vibrations and galloping

J Wang, S Gu, C Zhang, G Hu, G Chen, K Yang… - Energy Conversion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a hybrid piezoelectric wind energy scavenger with different cross-
sectioned bluff bodies, to enhance the energy scavenging performance by coupling both the …

A tristable nonlinear energy sink

Y Zeng, H Ding - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
The tristable characteristics are mostly used in the field of energy harvesting and vibration
isolator, but are rarely devoted to in the field of vibration absorption. In this paper, a tristable …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-stable ultra-low frequency energy harvester using a nonlinear pendulum and piezoelectric transduction for self-powered sensing

H Fu, J Jiang, S Hu, J Rao, S Theodossiades - Mechanical Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents the design, theoretical modelling and experimental validation of a quad-
stable energy harvester for harnessing ultra-low frequency random motions using a …