Mechanical metamaterials and beyond

P Jiao, J Mueller, JR Raney, X Zheng… - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented
mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has …

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 …

Piezoelectric energy harvester for rolling bearings with capability of self-powered condition monitoring

L Zhang, F Zhang, Z Qin, Q Han, T Wang, F Chu - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Rotational energy harvesting for powering low-power electronic devices and wireless
sensors has attracted increasing attention in recent years. This paper proposes an energy …

Review on engineering structural designs for efficient piezoelectric energy harvesting to obtain high power output

N Wu, B Bao, Q Wang - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, with more electrical devices developed and applied in wide fields, efficient
electrical energy generation is always one of the front-end and practical topics in …

Acoustic-elastic metamaterials and phononic crystals for energy harvesting: A review

G Hu, L Tang, J Liang, C Lan… - Smart Materials and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Metamaterials and phononic crystals (PCs) with artificially designed periodic microstructures
have attracted increasing research interests due to their unique properties that cannot be …

[HTML][HTML] Smart grid encounters edge computing: Opportunities and applications

C Feng, Y Wang, Q Chen, Y Ding, G Strbac… - Advances in Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
Smart grids (SGs) are reforming towards utilizing massive data for operations and services.
During this reform, the information and communication technologies (ICTs) play a critical …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on nanogenerators and piezotronics

P Basset, SP Beeby, C Bowen, ZJ Chew, A Delbani… - APL materials, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) was first introduced by using piezoelectric nanowires
for converting tiny mechanical energy into electric power. 1 Research in nanogenerators has …

Mechanical energy metamaterials in interstellar travel

P Jiao - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanoscale spacecrafts have shed light on an audacious but promising vision for interstellar
travel to neighboring planets beyond the solar system. The nanocrafts can be accelerated to …

Wind piezoelectric energy harvesting enhanced by elastic-interfered wake-induced vibration

Z Yan, G Shi, J Zhou, L Wang, L Zuo, T Tan - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Inspired by wake induced vibration (WIV) of tandem arranged cylinders, a piezoelectric wind
energy harvester with up and down stream interferences is proposed for highway wind …

Ultra‐wideband, polarization‐independent, wide‐angle multilayer Swastika‐shaped metamaterial solar energy absorber with absorption prediction using machine …

SK Patel, J Surve, R Jadeja, V Katkar… - Advanced Theory …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper proposes a double layer of gold multipattern swastika (DLMP) resonator based
on SiO2 substrate. The average absorption of 95% is achieved for the DLMP metasurface …