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 …

Multistability phenomenon in signal processing, energy harvesting, composite structures, and metamaterials: A review

S Fang, S Zhou, D Yurchenko, T Yang… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Multistability is the phenomenon of multiple coexistent stable states, which are highly
sensitive to perturbations, initial conditions, system parameters, etc. Multistability has been …

Hybrid energy harvesting technology: From materials, structural design, system integration to applications

H Liu, H Fu, L Sun, C Lee, EM Yeatman - Renewable and sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
The last decade has witnessed significant advances in energy harvesting technology for the
realization of self-charging electronics and self-powered wireless sensor nodes (WSNs). To …

Power generation for wearable systems

M Gao, P Wang, L Jiang, B Wang, Y Yao… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Wearable devices are drawing increasing attention in both academia and industry in that
they can offer unprecedented information related to human health in real-time and human …

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 …

Cellulose‐based hybrid aerogels: strategies toward design and functionality

V Rahmanian, T Pirzada, S Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The brittle nature of early aerogels developed from inorganic precursors fueled the
discovery of their organic counterparts. Prominent among these organics are cellulose …

High-performance piezoelectric energy harvesters and their applications

Z Yang, S Zhou, J Zu, D Inman - Joule, 2018 - cell.com
Energy harvesting holds great potential to achieve long-lifespan self-powered operations of
wireless sensor networks, wearable devices, and medical implants, and thus has attracted …

Reviving vibration energy harvesting and self-powered sensing by a triboelectric nanogenerator

J Chen, ZL Wang - Joule, 2017 - cell.com
Vibration energy harvesting and sensing is a traditional and growing research field in which
various working mechanisms and designs have been developed for an improved …

A comprehensive review on vibration energy harvesting: Modelling and realization

C Wei, X Jing - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a state-of-the-art review on a hot topic in the literature, ie, vibration
based energy harvesting techniques, including theory, modelling methods and the …

Spherical triboelectric nanogenerator integrated with power management module for harvesting multidirectional water wave energy

X Liang, T Jiang, G Liu, Y Feng, C Zhang… - Energy & Environmental …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
With the increasing deterioration of the natural environment, exploiting clean and renewable
energy has become the top priority of scientific research today. One of the most prospective …