Ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting: Mechanisms, enhancement techniques, and scaling laws

R Sun, S Zhou, L Cheng - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for clean and sustainable energy, self-powered technologies
based on environmental vibrations have attracted a lot of attention recently. Natural vibration …

A comprehensive review on self-powered smart bearings

Y Zhang, W Wang, X Wu, Y Lei, J Cao, C Bowen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, with the development of industrial informatization and intellectualization, the
development of smart bearings has attracted a lot of significant attention in an attempt to …

Hierarchical honeycomb-structured electret/triboelectric nanogenerator for biomechanical and morphing wing energy harvesting

K Tao, Z Chen, H Yi, R Zhang, Q Shen, J Wu, L Tang… - Nano-micro letters, 2021 - Springer
Flexible, compact, lightweight and sustainable power sources are indispensable for modern
wearable and personal electronics and small-unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

A broadband piezo-electromagnetic hybrid energy harvester under combined vortex-induced and base excitations

C Hou, C Li, X Shan, C Yang, R Song, T Xie - Mechanical Systems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wind energy harvesting is a green and advanced technology to persistently prop up low-
power devices employed in wireless applications. For enhancing the capacity of vortex …

An inertial rotary energy harvester for vibrations at ultra-low frequency with high energy conversion efficiency

A Luo, Y Zhang, X Dai, Y Wang, W Xu, Y Lu, M Wang… - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, we have designed, characterized, and optimized an inertial-based rotational
vibration energy harvester device which can effectively harvest energy from vibrations at …

Modeling and experimental investigation of a novel bistable two-degree-of-freedom electromagnetic energy harvester

N Yu, H Ma, C Wu, G Yu, B Yan - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The working bandwidth is an attractive aspect of vibrational energy harvesters. This paper
investigates the energy harvesting enhancement of a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) …

Enhanced swing electromagnetic energy harvesting from human motion

N Zhou, Z Hou, Y Zhang, J Cao, CR Bowen - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting from human motion has received considerable interests for its promising
potential to provide an autonomous energy supply for low-power devices. In order to …

Towards self-powered technique in underwater robots via a high-efficiency electromagnetic transducer with circularly abrupt magnetic flux density change

Z Li, X Jiang, P Yin, L Tang, H Wu, Y Peng, J Luo, S Xie… - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this article, we present a high-efficiency electromagnetic transducer harvesting kinetic
energy from the ocean current for self-powered technique in underwater robots to tackle the …

Broadband energy harvester for low-frequency rotations utilizing centrifugal softening piezoelectric beam array

S Fang, G Miao, K Chen, J Xing, S Zhou, Z Yang… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Harvesting the rotational energy has drawn great attention in the past decade with its
abundance in our living environment and its great potential to power the wireless transmitter …

An eccentric mass-based rotational energy harvester for capturing ultralow-frequency mechanical energy

K Fan, J Hao, C Wang, C Zhang, W Wang… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The omnipresent ultralow-frequency vibrations and swings contain a huge amount of
mechanical energy, but the low harvesting efficiency hinders their application as a practical …