Promoting smart cities into the 5G era with multi-field Internet of Things (IoT) applications powered with advanced mechanical energy harvesters

L Liu, X Guo, C Lee - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Along with the arrival of the 5G era, sustainable and renewable energy supplies have
become urgent demands towards plentifully distributed devices utilized for constructing …

[HTML][HTML] Wearable sensors for healthcare: Fabrication to application

SC Mukhopadhyay, NK Suryadevara, A Nag - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a substantial review of the deployment of wearable sensors for
healthcare applications. Wearable sensors hold a pivotal position in the microelectronics …

Transparent Self‐Healing Anti‐Freezing Ionogel for Monolayered Triboelectric Nanogenerator and Electromagnetic Energy‐Based Touch Panel

Y Xia, Y Zhu, X Zhi, W Guo, B Yang, S Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of Internet of Things and artificial intelligence era necessitates the advancement
of self‐powered electronics. However, prevalent multifunctional electronics still face great …

Mechanical energy harvesters with tensile efficiency of 17.4% and torsional efficiency of 22.4% based on homochirally plied carbon nanotube yarns

M Zhang, W Cai, Z Wang, S Fang, R Zhang, H Lu… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Improved methods are needed for harvesting mechanical energy. Coiled carbon nanotube
yarns, termed twistrons, use stretch-induced changes in electrochemical capacitance to …

Survey of energy harvesting technologies for wireless sensor networks

AJ Williams, MF Torquato, IM Cameron… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy harvesting (EH) technologies could lead to self-sustaining wireless sensor networks
(WSNs) which are set to be a key technology in Industry 4.0. There are numerous methods …

The large piezoelectricity and high power density of a 3D-printed multilayer copolymer in a rugby ball-structured mechanical energy harvester

X Yuan, X Gao, J Yang, X Shen, Z Li, S You… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Piezoelectric polymers are characterized by their flexibility and ease of processing into
shapes, however, their piezoelectric coefficients, such as d33, are quite low (∼ 24 pC N− 1) …

[HTML][HTML] Pyroelectric energy conversion and its applications—flexible energy harvesters and sensors

A Thakre, A Kumar, HC Song, DY Jeong, J Ryu - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Among the various forms of natural energies, heat is the most prevalent and least harvested
energy. Scavenging and detecting stray thermal energy for conversion into electrical energy …

Ultrasoft and biocompatible magnetic-hydrogel-based strain sensors for wireless passive biomechanical monitoring

Q Zhang, G Yang, L Xue, G Dong, W Su, M Cui… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Implantable flexible mechanical sensors have exhibited great potential in health monitoring
and disease diagnosis due to continuous and real-time monitoring capability. However, the …

Significant power enhancement of magneto-mechano-electric generators by magnetic flux concentration

H Song, DR Patil, WH Yoon, KH Kim, C Choi… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A magneto-mechano-electric (MME) generator comprising a cantilever structured
magnetoelectric (ME) composite having a magnet-proof mass is an ideal candidate for …

Progress in multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials: applications, opportunities and challenges

M Kumar, S Shankar, A Kumar, A Anshul… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
The development of electronic technology is flexibly related to the progresses made in
material science. Functional materials out of the broad class of materials available today …