Recent progress in micro-and nanotechnology-enabled sensors for biomedical and environmental challenges

FJ Tovar-Lopez - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Open Access Editor's Choice Review Recent Progress in Micro-and
Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensors for Biomedical and Environmental Challenges by …

Thermoelectrics for medical applications: Progress, challenges, and perspectives

B Hu, XL Shi, J Zou, ZG Chen - Chemical engineering journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermoelectrics, enabling the direct conversion between heat and electrical energy, exhibit
great potentials for employing to localized power generation and refrigeration. Their unique …

High-performance compliant thermoelectric generators with magnetically self-assembled soft heat conductors for self-powered wearable electronics

B Lee, H Cho, KT Park, JS Kim, M Park, H Kim… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Softening of thermoelectric generators facilitates conformal contact with arbitrary-shaped
heat sources, which offers an opportunity to realize self-powered wearable applications …

Organic-based flexible thermoelectric generators: From materials to devices

S Masoumi, S O'Shaughnessy, A Pakdel - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
There is a rapidly growing demand for self-powered technologies in wearable electronic
devices that can be integrated with the human body to accomplish various functions …

Thermoelectric coolers as thermal management systems for medical applications: Design, optimization, and advancement

SH Zaferani, MW Sams, R Ghomashchi, ZG Chen - Nano energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Compared with traditional cooling techniques, thermoelectric coolers have drawn massive
attention for small-scale cooling applications, particularly in medical practices …

Recent Progress in Application‐Oriented Self‐Powered Microelectronics

L Qi, L Kong, Y Wang, J Song, A Azam… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoTs), numerous distributed wide‐area
low‐power electronic devices have been utilized in various fields, such as wireless …

Wearable thermoelectric generator to harvest body heat for powering a miniaturized accelerometer

Y Wang, Y Shi, D Mei, Z Chen - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Wearable thermoelectric generators (TEGs) enable the conversion of human body heat into
microwatts to milliwatt electricity, which can be utilized to power miniaturized electronic …

Inorganic thermoelectric materials: A review

MN Hasan, H Wahid, N Nayan… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric generator, which converts heat into electrical energy, has great potential to
power portable devices. Nevertheless, the efficiency of a thermoelectric generator suffers …

Pushing thermoelectric generators toward energy harvesting from the human body: Challenges and strategies

T Sun, L Wang, W Jiang - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Advances in miniaturized portable electronics and progress on novel enabling technologies,
consequently accompanied by power consumption downgraded from the scale of milliwatts …

Investigation of an ultra-low frequency piezoelectric energy harvester with high frequency up-conversion factor caused by internal resonance mechanism

Y Wu, S Li, K Fan, H Ji, J Qiu - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
The collection of ultra-low frequency mechanical energy that distributed in ambient
environments remains challenging so far. This paper presents a frequency up-converting …