A review on design improvements and techniques for mechanical energy harvesting using piezoelectric and electromagnetic schemes

B Maamer, A Boughamoura, AMRF El-Bab… - Energy Conversion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting has gained a growing attention and has seen great advancements during
the last decades. Among energy sources, mechanical energy is one of the most investigated …

Knowledge structuring for enhancing mechanical energy harvesting (MEH): An in-depth review from 2000 to 2020 using CiteSpace

A Azam, A Ahmed, MS Kamran, L Hai, Z Zhang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to swift innovations in mechanical energy harvesting (MEH) during recent years, the
findings of MEH research are prolific. The objective of the recent study is to visualise the …

A piezoelectric spring pendulum oscillator used for multi-directional and ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting

Y Wu, J Qiu, S Zhou, H Ji, Y Chen, S Li - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Low frequency vibration is a ubiquitous energy existing in our environment, but a large
efficient harvesting of which remains challenging. This paper presents a simple piezoelectric …

Harvesting water wave energy by asymmetric screening of electrostatic charges on a nanostructured hydrophobic thin-film surface

G Zhu, Y Su, P Bai, J Chen, Q **g, W Yang, ZL Wang - ACS nano, 2014 - ACS Publications
Energy harvesting from ambient water motions is a desirable but underexplored solution to
on-site energy demand for self-powered electronics. Here we report a liquid–solid …

Radial-arrayed rotary electrification for high performance triboelectric generator

G Zhu, J Chen, T Zhang, Q **g, ZL Wang - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Harvesting mechanical energy is an important route in obtaining cost-effective, clean and
sustainable electric energy. Here we report a two-dimensional planar-structured triboelectric …

A shape‐adaptive thin‐film‐based approach for 50% high‐efficiency energy generation through micro‐grating sliding electrification

G Zhu, YS Zhou, P Bai, XS Meng, Q **g… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Effectively harvesting ambient mechanical energy is the key for realizing self‐powered and
autonomous electronics, which addresses limitations of batteries and thus has tremendous …

Review of nonlinear vibration energy harvesting: Duffing, bistability, parametric, stochastic and others

Y Jia - Journal of intelligent material systems and structures, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Vibration energy harvesting typically involves a mechanical oscillatory mechanism to
accumulate ambient kinetic energy, prior to the conversion to electrical energy through a …

Hibernus++: a self-calibrating and adaptive system for transiently-powered embedded devices

D Balsamo, AS Weddell, A Das… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy harvesters are being used to power autonomous systems, but their output power is
variable and intermittent. To sustain computation, these systems integrate batteries or …

Review of the application of energy harvesting in buildings

JW Matiko, NJ Grabham, SP Beeby… - Measurement Science …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
This review presents the state of the art of the application of energy harvesting in commercial
and residential buildings. Electromagnetic (optical and radio frequency), kinetic, thermal and …

Maximum efficiencies of indoor photovoltaic devices

M Freunek, M Freunek… - IEEE Journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photovoltaic (PV) converters on the centimeter scale are considered to be the most
promising energy supplier for energy-autarkic microsystems in indoor applications, ie, to …