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 …

Rotational energy harvesting for self-powered sensing

H Fu, X Mei, D Yurchenko, S Zhou, S Theodossiades… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Advances in wireless sensors, biomedical devices, and micro-robotics exert more pressure
on creating reliable, miniaturized, and self-sustained energy supply solutions for these micro …

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 …

A low-frequency rotational electromagnetic energy harvester using a magnetic plucking mechanism

G Miao, S Fang, S Wang, S Zhou - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting from rotational motion, such as vehicle tires and rotational devices,
remains a challenge because of the difficulty of balancing the harvesting frequency range …

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 …

Tuned bistable nonlinear energy sink for simultaneously improved vibration suppression and energy harvesting

S Fang, K Chen, J **ng, S Zhou, WH Liao - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the combination of nonlinear vibration suppression (VS) and energy harvesting (EH)
has received great attention in recent years, the strategy to simultaneously improve the …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-stable ultra-low frequency energy harvester using a nonlinear pendulum and piezoelectric transduction for self-powered sensing

H Fu, J Jiang, S Hu, J Rao, S Theodossiades - Mechanical Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents the design, theoretical modelling and experimental validation of a quad-
stable energy harvester for harnessing ultra-low frequency random motions using a …

Rotational nonlinear double-beam energy harvesting

ZQ Lu, FY Zhang, HL Fu, H Ding… - Smart Materials and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents an investigation of the performance of a coupled rotational double-
beam energy harvester (DBEH) with magnetic nonlinearity. Two spring-connected cantilever …

Snap-through triboelectric nanogenerator with magnetic coupling buckled bistable mechanism for harvesting rotational energy

Q Bai, XW Liao, ZW Chen, CZ Gan, HX Zou, KX Wei… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a snap-through triboelectric nanogenerator with magnetic coupling and buckled
bistable mechanism to harvest rotational energy (ST-RTENG). The buckled bistable beam …

[HTML][HTML] A seesaw-inspired bistable energy harvester with adjustable potential wells for self-powered internet of train monitoring

M Liu, Y Zhang, H Fu, Y Qin, A Ding, EM Yeatman - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting provides a potential solution to power distributed sensors for train
condition monitoring in a self-sustained manner, but the broadband and random nature of …