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 …

Condition monitoring can reduce machine breakdown losses, increase productivity and
operation safety, and therefore deliver significant benefits to many industries. The …

The rapid development of smart electronics has enabled their applications into such fields
as portable instruments, wearable electronic devices, implantable medical devices and even …

Energy harvesting in the railway industry has great potential for many applications. Energy
harvesters can provide electrical power for track-side, on-board, and infrastructure …

Organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites (OMHPs) have been extensively investigated
over the past few years, not only because of their key features such as ease of solution …

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) have been extensively investigated for various
applications such as drug delivery, energy storage, catalysis, and luminescence. In this …

This paper reviews state-of-the-art methods of energy harvesting for implantable and
wearable devices based on the available mechanical and heat energy sources in the …

This paper proposes a novel vortex-induced vibration piezoelectric energy harvester
attached to two asymmetrical splitter plates (VIVPEH-S), which aims at converting the …

Based on a paradox-free nonlocal theory—two-phase local/nonlocal elasticity—vibration,
buckling, and energy harvesting of piezoelectric nanobeams are investigated for the first …

Since piezoelectric materials can convert mechanical pressure applied to them to electrical
impulses and vice versa, they are unequivocally referred to as smart materials. Among such …